Amina Wadud Quotes & Sayings

Dead Butterflies
I sometimes think about the fragility of glass - of broken shards tearing against soft skin.When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch. For years I've kept you in secret, behind a glass screen. I've watched helplessly as day after day, your new girlfriend becomes your wife and then later, the mother of your children. Then realizing their only in thinking you were the one under glass when in fact it has been me - a pinned butterfly static and unmoving, watching while your other life unfolds. — Lang Leav

Why don't you take off your shirt?" he finally asked. "I bet you say that to all the girls. — Sarah Addison Allen

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? — Keith Henson

Originality has nothing to do with producing something ' new' - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one's origins, it is the dance of the eternal return ... and is as ancient as the Dreamtime. — Billy Marshall Stoneking

In the future, the cyber threat will equal or even eclipse the terrorist threat, — Robert Mueller

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast! — Jonathan Frakes

Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes. — Jeanette

We are many small puppets moved by fate and fortune through strings unseen by us; therefore, if it is so as I think, one has to prepare oneself with a good heart and indifference to accept things coming towards us, because they cannot be avoided, and to oppose them requires a violence that tears our souls too deeply, and it seems that both fortune and men are always busy in affairs for our dislike because the former is blind and the latter only think of their interest. — Marcello Malpighi

I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves. — Barack Obama

I know I have gained Christ and through His blessing I have gained the whole world too, but for what I have lost, for what we have all lost, there is no end to the reckoning. We lost everything. — Bernard Cornwell

Why can't rappers just say nice things? Like I wanna take your clothes off and hang them up in the closet real nice. — Ellen DeGeneres