Arjuna Ranatunga Quotes

You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Important
  • Family
  • Daughter

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Need
  • Will

• My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Country
  • Mother

• From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • You
  • View
  • Point Of View

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Chance
  • Lucky

• You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • May
  • Progress
  • Helpful

• Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better

• What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Long
  • Live
  • Growing

• I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Test
  • Member
  • Became

• I want to expand what I do and definitely focus a little more in the acting, theater world.

  

  La La Anthony
  • Acting
  • Theater
  • Expand

• I've never met a person who does not want a safer world, better medical care and education for their children, and peace with their neighbours. I just don't meet those people. What I meet, over and over again, as I travel around, is that the essential human condition is optimistic - in every one of these places.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

  

  Arthur Twining Hadley
  • World
  • History
  • Game

• Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.

  

  Jay Parini
  • God
  • American
  • Fun

• You can find tea in a tea cup.. but cannot find world in a world cup.

  

  Arjuna Ranatunga
  • World
  • Find
  • World Cup