Azamat Tazhayakov Quotes & Sayings

Look at the way you and I have ended up. I renounced and abandoned the world in order to be here and devote myself entirely to the service of Christ far away from people. And now you return to me after embracing Islam, clad in nothing but tunic and waist-cloth, and with nothing to your name but a staff to walk on. Tell me, for Heaven's sake: What is the difference between us? Is not your renunciation of the world the same as mine? And, my dear: Is it not the same rejection of the state of the world and its inhabitants that has impelled both of us to leave everything behind, realizing as we do that there is no hope to be found in this world and that there is nothing left for us but the love of God? — Salwa Bakr

Life gives us everything. Then it takes it away. Youth, love, happiness, friends. Darkness gets it all in the end. — Ray Bradbury

Humankind's compulsion has always been to master the meaning of their world. Through the ages humans have time and again tried to proclaim the nature of existence. Yet the sun has continued to shine on an enigmatic world, with the most imponderable aspect of that world being humans themselves. — Stephen R. Harrison

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop. — Jan Struther

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything — Rachel Weisz

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge. — Margaret Atwood

For which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh', — Leo Tolstoy

You find the wrong boy, you ask for trouble. You find the right boy, you find love. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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forbidden to love where we are not loved — Sharon Olds

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. — Henry George

If the scandal of Jesus was that He was always touching the wrong people and inviting the wrong people to the table - how on earth can we think the Communion meal now is for the extra holy or the super spiritual? To say we need to be completely cleaned up before Communion is like saying we need to get well so we can take our medication. — Jonathan Martin

It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays. — Blythe Danner

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389). — Richard Baxter