Al Baqarah 286 Quotes & Sayings

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team. — Bobby Knight

Mrs. Brown, whose primary job on the island — Pat Conroy

The Lotus opens. Movement from earth, through water, from fire to air. Out and in beyond life and death now, beyond inner and outer, sense and non-sense, meaning and futility, male and female, being and non-being, Light and darkness, void and full. Beyond all duality, or non-duality, beyond and beyond. Disincarnation. I breathe again. — R.D. Laing

One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions and propensities; and, in this way, with the patient as one's equal, one's co-explorer, not one's puppet, one may find therapeutic ways which are better than other ways, tactics which can be modified as occasion requires. — Oliver Sacks

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books. — David Edelstein

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. — Alexei Sayle

One lesson I learned from all of this, and that was a hard one, for all of the good I did people, it was never remembered. I was the one doing jail, not them. Apart from a small circle of close loyal friends, I was and am on my own. — Stephen Richards

Sign up for the daily work, not the payoff. — Felicia Day

he was a slave labourer under the Nazis, — Clive James

we are doing what we are doing now because we are not doing what we are not doing now — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear. — Douglas Kennedy

This program could destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance against the cost of illness ... Presently, over 60 percent of our older citizens purchase hospital and medical insurance without Government assistance. This private effort would cease if Government benefits were given to all our older citizens. — Milward L. Simpson

Good people are found not changed. Recently I read a headline that said, 'We don't teach people to be nice. We simply hire nice people.' Wow! What a clever short cut. — Jim Rohn

We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections. — Phillips Brooks