Wasanthi Gunawardana Quotes & Sayings

I've seen this before."
"A golden brick that turned into a deadly, rampaging puddle of molten metal?" I asked. — Richelle Mead

If everyone got a divorce and looked for a second wife, the Coptic family would lose its moral compass. — Pope Shenouda III

Living for the satisfaction of only one part of my body (my mouth) [is] unholy. — Lisa Morrone

I just always had this feeling inside me of always being nervous and afraid of situations. — Jonathan Knight

Some people awake each morning dreading the day looking for the negatives in their lives and in others, while some awaken fresh appreciating the opportunity to contribute to life, making the world a better place and see the positives. Neither is right or wrong for we are human, we all make a conscience choice everyday as to who we shall be. — Mark W. Boyer

Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow. — Wayne Dyer

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening. — Ji-li Jiang

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas") — Horace

And if flying, like a glass-bottomed bucket, can give you that vision, that seeing eye, which peers down on the still world below the choppy waves - it will always remain magic. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us — Henry Ward Beecher

But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know
from experience
how much beauty Satan carried down with him when he fell. Nobody ever said the fallen angels were the ugly ones. Oh, no, they were just as quick and light and ... — Graham Greene

I'm the youngest of three sisters, and my parents have always encouraged all of us to do whatever made us happy. — Michelle Dockery

She stood leaning against a column, a cocktail glass in her hand. She wore a suit of black velvet; the heavy cloth, which transmitted no light rays, held her anchored to reality by stopping the light that flowed too freely through the flesh of her hands, her neck, her face. A white spark of fire flashed like a cold metallic cross in the glass she held, as if it were a lens gathering the diffused radiance of her skin. — Ayn Rand

He turned and walked across the floor and out. I watched the door close. I listened to his steps going away down the imitation marble corridor. After a while they got faint, then they got silent. I kept on listening anyway. — Raymond Chandler