Weerasekara Sinhala Quotes & Sayings

Oddly enough, we can destroy the very things that allowed us to pursue our agendas in the first place. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while. — Douglas Booth

If this really were your last day, you'd want to spend it with someone, or doing something, you love. Don't ask permission. Don't wait until next week. Just go out there and get it. — Linda Gray

So in the end, what is a moment? One action? A single deed? Or is it more? Is a moment like a school of silver fish? The sum of many singular parts forming one cohesive unit? I tend to think so. Because the moment I met Ryan, that was just one of the sum parts. — Marie Hall

The problem with heart disease is the first symptom is often fatal. — Michael Phelps

Love, sex, food, friendship, art, play, beauty and the simple pleasure of a cup of tea are all well and good, but never forget that God/the universe is determined to kill you by whatever means necessary. — Chuck Lorre

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.' — Dani Shapiro

He has no interest in comics. He doesn't understand the difference between serious graphic novels and Saturday-morning cartoons with wide-eyed tweetybirds and floppy-limbed cats. — Emily St. John Mandel

The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. — Helen Thomas

One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book) — Murzban F. Shroff

Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time. — Anita Loos

If someone's takeaway from this story is "Felicia Day said don't study!," I'll punch you in the face. But I AM saying don't chase perfection for perfection's sake, or for anyone else's sake at all. If you strive for something, make sure it's for the right reasons. And if you fail, that will be a better lesson for you than any success you'll ever have. Because you learn a lot from screwing up. Being perfect . . . not so much. — Felicia Day

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility. — Iyanla Vanzant

Nobody warns you aobut this, but the dead, or at least some of them, take customs, decades, whole neighborhoods with them. Things you thought you shared but which turn out to be theirs. When death does you part, it's also the end of what's mine is yours. — Laia Jufresa

The day is still bright, but fading, like it's tired of holding on to the sun and the birdsong and the green smells of the fields just outside of town. — Moira Fowley-Doyle