Allamah Tabataba Quotes & Sayings

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.' What does it mean? Let me put it negatively like this. We are not to hunger and thirst after blessedness; we are not to hunger and thirst after happiness. But that is what most people are doing. We put happiness and blessedness as the one thing that we desire, and thus we always miss it; it always eludes us. According to the Scriptures happiness is never something that should be sought directly; it is always something that results from seeking something else. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Misunderstood some say. Perhaps it's the perception that needs examining! — Annette Whitaker-Moss

One kiss, my bonny sweetheart; I'm after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow gold before the morning light.
Yet if they press me sharply, and harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way. — Alfred Noyes

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world. — Brett Ratner

Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end. — Melina Marchetta

Don't take these from anyone but me or Shep. I don't want anyone slipping anything in your drink. — Jamie McGuire

The old sergeant from headquarters treats me like a son and takes the greatest pride in whatever I do or write. He regularly assigns me now to certain doors, and I always obey orders like the little gentleman that I am. — Richard H. Davis

Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity — Jose De Alencar