Abbas Ibn Quotes & Sayings

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. — Mark Twain

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink. — David Eagleman

I never have regrets! What's the point? — Eliza Doolittle

The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen. — Aravind Adiga

Children are who they are. I may love them all, but I know them too. Their feet are as much clay as my own. It hardly matters what path we've walked to become what we are. Whatever it was, we've walked it. — Daniel Abraham

The man who reproaches you is unfair;
You're a woman and not a saint. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

God is just what happens when humanity is connected. Humanity connected is god. Each one of us is a creator but, together, we are THE creator. — Jim Gilliam

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully. — Ciaran Hinds

What I like best about music is when time goes away. — Bob Weir

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas Ibn Firnas

I felt so peaceful and safe because I knew that no matter what happened, from that day on, nothing can ever be that bad..because I had you. — Zac Efron Seventeen Again

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't. — Neil Gaiman

Death and parting are the same. — Abbas Ibn Al-Ahnaf

The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone. — Kate Bolick

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words. — Haruki Murakami

Why is true success so relatively effortless? It might be likened to the magnetic field created by an electric current running through a wire. The higher the power of the current, the greater the magnetic field that it generates. And the magnetic field itself then influences everything in its presence. There are very few at the top. The world of the mediocre, however, is one of intense competition, and the bottom of the pyramid is crowded. Charismatic winners are sought out; losers have to strive to be accepted. People who are loving, kind, and thoughtful of others have more friends than they can count; success in every area of life is a reflex to those who are aligned with successful patterns. And the capacity to be able to discern the difference between the strong patterns of success and the weak patterns leading to failure is now available to each of us. — David R. Hawkins