Quotes & Sayings About Alayne Stone

Love happens in the strangest places at the strangest times. — Andrew Sturm

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others. — Mahatma Gandhi

When trying to explain the violent path of some Islamists, Western commentators sometimes blame harsh economic conditions, dysfunctional family circumstances, confused identity, the generic alienation of young males, a failure to integrate into the larger society, mental illness, and so on. Some on the Left insist that the real fault lies with the mistakes of American foreign policy.
None of this is convincing. Jihad in the twenty-first century is not a problem of poverty, insufficient education, or any other social precondition. (Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was earning more than $90,000 a year working for a drilling company in British Columbia, where he also reportedly proclaimed his support of the Taliban and joked about suicide bombing vests, with no repercussions.) We must move beyond such facile explanations. The imperative for jihad is embedded in Islam itself. It is a religious obligation. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible. — William James

I want people to realize that they can dream big. — Madison Pettis

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. — E. M. Forster

This new Ariella, quiet and sad, bowed under the weight of terrible knowledge and countless secrets, — Julie Kagawa