Arjuna Ranatunga Quotes

It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

Arjuna Ranatunga

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• I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Things

• Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • Night
  • Sweet
  • Comfort

• We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.

  

  Luciano De Crescenzo
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Fly

• Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Positive
  • Discipline
  • Situation

• The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Essence
  • Historical
  • Buddha

• You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Mindset

• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Joy

• In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Science
  • Sense

• Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • Found
  • Mistaken
  • Impress

• I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Opinions
  • Sincerity
  • Lac

• I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the softer.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Heart
  • Tears

• I can be a real pessimist. You know that when you win an Oscar, and you walk offstage, and your first thought is: 'Oh God, I've peaked.'

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Thought
  • Win
  • Pessimist

• Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's not that they're bad mothers.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.

  

  Plato
  • Wolf
  • Sheep
  • Cares

• Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Swallow
  • Life Is A
  • Marshmallow

• I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite.

  

  Betty Lynn
  • I Love
  • Restaurant
  • Dynamite

• It is better to swallow a sheep or a goat than swallow what he has been swallowing.

  

  Arjuna Ranatunga
  • Sheep
  • Swallow
  • Goat