Ahmad Matar Quotes & Sayings

Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution. — Jaggi Vasudev

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way. — David Brooks

I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me. — Jenny Han

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power. — George Pataki

Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher. — Rudolf Steiner

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream. — Rebecca Solnit

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God. — Jerry Falwell

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve. — Henry Ward Beecher

Our small group is committed to getting the biblical text under our skin. — Jen Pollock Michel

It's always a pleasure on a personal note for me to come back to Australia. — Nick Cave

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them. — Thucydides

He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women. — Leo Tolstoy

He too was experimental and creatively disobedient, but he was still able to operate effectively in a fairly rigid hierarchy - something Americans do particularly well. — Robert L. O'Connell

Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness. — Rachel Naomi Remen

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you. — Judith McNaught