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No player can represent Sri Lanka in future without good fitness levels -- Sanath Jayasuriya
Please pray with me for everyone in Sri Lanka and the Philippines as I begin my trip. -- Pope Francis
I realised in Sri Lanka that my dream of playing in a World Cup was a bridge too far, -- Jacques Kallis
Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved. -- Dalai Lama
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. -- Paul Walker
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That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes. -- Michael Ondaatje
I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas. -- Julia Sawalha
The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach. -- Martin Jacques
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
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
Hidden nature is secret God. -- Sri Aurobindo
Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent. -- Sri Chinmoy
By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself. -- Sri Chinmoy
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. -- Sri Aurobindo
If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God. -- Sri Chinmoy
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. -- Sri Aurobindo
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being. -- Sri Chinmoy
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. -- Sri Chinmoy
Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. -- Sri Aurobindo
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples. -- Sri Aurobindo
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
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
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. -- Sri Aurobindo
In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts. -- Michael Ondaatje
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka. -- Mahela Jayawardene
If u come to Sri Lanka you will find that DHONI has more fans than any other Srilankan player. -- Arjuna Ranatunga
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed. -- Ru Freeman
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. -- Michael Ondaatje
India claimed to have intervened in Sri Lanka to secure Tamil interests. In actual fact, India came to secure its own interests. -- Velupillai Prabhakaran
I want to convey a message to the Sri Lankan government that they should seriously consider sending Sri Lankan Cricket Team to Pakistan. -- Sanath Jayasuriya
My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp. -- M.I.A.
I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee. -- M.I.A.
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
I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani. -- M.I.A.
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
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
After surviving the tsunami in Sri Lanka and facing that moment where I was not sure if I would live to see the next, I learned all that matters is now. -- Rosie Fellner
I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Malaysians talk with Mauritians, Arabs with Australians, South Africans with Sri Lankans, and Iranians with Indonesians. The Indian Ocean serves as both a sea separating them and a bridge linking them together. -- Shashi Tharoor
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
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
I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go back a few generations, and you find people talking about earlier lives with total certainty. -- John Burdett
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. -- James Buchan
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
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
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

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