507 Area Quotes & Sayings

Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mischief by debasing values, imposing upon the ignorant, and encouraging the rise of mediocrity. The appropriate original ideas for hasty implementation and make false claims for themselves. Original ideas cannot be implemented when vulgarized; on the contrary, what is praiseworthy in them will turn out to become blameworthy, and their rejection will follow with the dissatisfaction that will emerge. So in this way authentic and creative intellectual effort will continually be sabotaged. It is not surprising that the situation arising out of the loss of adab also provides the breeding ground for the emergence of extremists who make ignorance their capital. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets. — John Ray

This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink. — Robert Browning

What you see ... And on the other side: It isn't me. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Ideally if I settled down with a wife I would love to form my own troupe of mini dancers! — Michael Flatley

Those corrupted by the pursuit of power, despite another's attempt at unspoiled love, cannot be rescued from the darkness that devours the soul — Christy Hall

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God. — Steven J. Lawson

There are men on that Commission who would steal the brakes off a mountain railway just before they went down in it...It's a struggle with suicidal imbeciles.

The Secret Places of The Heart (Kindle Location 59) — H.G.Wells

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. — Eugene H. Peterson

Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass. — Leo Tolstoy

That's right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you'll land. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — John Barton

The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast — Staind

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul. — Hanif Kureishi