Annemarie Schimmel Quotes & Sayings

Why is the Chosen One always a he? — J.D. Cunegan

As I said earlier, for the first several months under Obama, it took a lot of discipline to sit quietly at the table as everyone from the president on down took shots at Bush and his team. Sitting there, I would often think to myself, Am I invisible? During those excoriations, there was never any acknowledgment that I had been an integral part of that earlier team. — Robert M. Gates

The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel. — Pope Francis

I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent. — Kevin Pietersen

A person's life isn't orderly ... it runs about all over the place, in and out through time. The present's hardly there; the future doesn't exist. Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life. — William Trevor

I think that autistic brains tend to be specialized brains. Autistic people tend to be less social. It takes a ton of processor space in the brain to have all the social circuits. — Temple Grandin

A spirit ushered by false teachings is like a body nourished by sweets. The adult, as opposed to the child, will come to understand reasons one cannot live a healthy existence on nothing but candy; so likewise, the Christian must come to understand that one cannot know and love the will of God under false doctrine. — Criss Jami

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility. — Scott Adams

Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure. — Louis Navellier

Sam nodded. "I was right about you. — L.L. Collins

Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward? — Laura Lee Guhrke

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type. — Otto Weininger

We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would have nothing to evade, and nothing to forestall, and nothing to wonder about. Time would have no consequence. — Eleanor Catton

She wanted to flee this, to return to her island, to roar her fire, to drown in the sea, or to be a wild beast, but not face this. Not feel her heart shatter. Not feel love fill her; love hurt too much. She had known too much pain to feel love now. It frightened her more than all the dragons and horrors in the world. Yet — Daniel Arenson