10932 Quotes & Sayings

Every Islamic value I had been taught instructed me to put myself last. Life on earth is a test, and if you manage to put yourself last in this life, you are serving Allah; your place will be first in the Hereafter. The more deeply you submit your will, the more virtuous that makes you. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation. — John Adams

It started becoming clear to me how one might have views about the nature of mind and of knowledge which are empirically informed. This way of thinking about philosophical theorizing makes sense of how philosophy might be a legitimate intellectual activity, in a way that a good deal of the armchair philosophy, I believe, cannot. — Hilary Kornblith

When life throws you down, have the courage to stand back up and dust yourself off. — Aaron Morgan

I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints and poets have imagined. — Bertrand Russell

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system. — Sue Kelly

From then on, my thesis hung over me like a curse, and with bloodshot eyes, I worked like a madman. — Soseki Natsume

You reason like the king, who, being sent across the frontier, called out, 'What will become of my poor subjects without me?' — Peter Kropotkin

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody