Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Cockburn

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Dalai Lama

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

Sri Aurobindo

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

Hidden nature is secret God.

Sri Chinmoy

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

Mia Bloom

When I was in Sri Lanka with the [Tamil] Tigers, there were editorials in the paper saying that soldiers really had to stop raping Tamil women at checkpoints because they were just creating more operatives. The [Tigers] were cognizant of this and exploited it: "Don't be a victim, join the movement.

Mahela Jayawardene

We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.

Pope Francis

Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip.

Paul Walker

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out.

Charles Caleb Colton

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Edith Wharton

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Agnes Repplier

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Bill McKibben

But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.

Bill Maher

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

George White

When we get them, we immediately go out there and abate it. We have no tolerance for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

Brandon Lee

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

Bruce Lee

To tolerate is to insult.

Charles Gounod

If all the music written since Bach's time should be lost, it could be reconstructed on the foundation which Bach laid.

Bing Gordon

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

Steven Hatfill

Whether we're at war or have been attacked, the foundation of society is that you hold to the laws in place. I used to be somebody that trusted the government. Now I really don't trust anything.

Carl Jung

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Even theories must have foundations.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled, and smiles are the foundation of beauty.

Bill Gates

I like to read general biology - things about the immune system and advances in that area - because it lays the foundation for my part of the dialogue at the foundation about what things we ought to pursue.

Mark Stanley

The young guys have worked hard. They show up, don't say anything and do what they're supposed to. ... That's the foundation they need to have right now and pass it on to guys later.

Judy Taylor

This is a fund-raising project for the Decatur Public Schools Foundation and also to beautify the front of Eisenhower.