Sri Lanka Quotes - Page 2

• I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state uses Buddhism as an instrument of power, so there are even Buddhists monks who say the Tamils should be eliminated. Thai Buddhists are not perfect either. Some Thai Buddhist monks have compromised with the kind and possess cars and other luxuries. In many Buddhist countries, the emphasis is on being goody-goody, which is not good enough. I am for buddhism with a small 'b' which is non-violent, practical and aims to eliminate the cause of suffering.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Country, Buddhist, Humility

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• I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.

  Billy Campbell

  Fashion, Mean, Thinking

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Child Of God, Ifs

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.398, Aum Publications

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• Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when I've played the game, the game goes on. You can't hold onto it and people shouldn't be too sentimental. I think a lot better players and greater players have gone, and the game has gone on and there are new players who take the mantle, and in my case it won't be any different.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Player, Thinking, Games

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• 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

  Mind, Saws, Splendor

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• 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.

  Mia Bloom

  Creating, Soldier, Movement

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Keys, Mind

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Way, Mortality

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• I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Senior, Struggle, Home

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  David Suzuki

  Country, Rights, Records

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• If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Art, Meditation, World

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.234, Aum Publications

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• 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.

  Alexander Cockburn

  People, Thailand, Remember

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.189, Verso

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• No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels

  Sanath Jayasuriya

  Player, Levels

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• We've made three World T20 finals and won one - that's not by power-hitting. We've beaten the power-hitting sides quite easily and convincingly in all of those tournaments.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Finals, Three, World

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• By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sweet, Hate, Lost

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• I am excited about it. No-one really knows him [Kumar Sangakkara] as a person and everyone is looking forward to that. Getting to know players like Amla, Ponting and Smith has been special and this is great, because he [Sangakkara] is here for two years, it's no flash in the pan.

  Jason Roy

  Player, Years, Two

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• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.

  Randall Munroe

  Japan, Sea, Space

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• When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

  Lisa Ling

  Beach, Thinking, Yelling

  Syracuse University speech, April 19, 2006.

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• We oppress people, we make our victims small wherever they are, whether they are a black girl in a rural community in, say, America or Britain, or whether it's something happening out there in one of the countries of conflict. I mean Sri Lanka, the human rights abuse there is appalling.

  Roma Tearne

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Strange to wake-up this morning as a former ODI cricketer, but it's been a great honour and privilege playing for Sri Lanka during the past 15 years. At the end of the day, I am very fortunate to have enjoyed a long career playing with and against some great players. Thanks for all the encouragement and support over the years.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Encouragement, Morning, Past

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• If the U.S. wants to help people in tsunami-hit countries like Sri Lanka and Indonesia - not to mention other poor countries in Africa - there's one step that would cost us nothing and would save hundreds of thousands of lives. It would be to allow DDT in malaria-ravaged countries.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Country, Ddt, People

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• I am deeply concerned that Sri Lanka, despite the opportunity provided by the end of the war to construct a new vibrant, all-embracing state, is showing signs of heading in an increasingly authoritarian direction.

  Navi Pillay

  War, Opportunity, Ends

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• Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.

  Eboo Patel

  Writing, People, Office

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• India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Play, Training, India

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• There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Opportunity, Reality, Light

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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