Barka Jummah Quotes & Sayings

There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the brain, called the cerebral cortex. Unlike the rest of the brain, this relatively recent evolutionary development is rather flat, only about 0.32 cm (0.12 in) thick and includes a mere 6 million neurons. This elaborately folded organ provides us with what little competence we do possess for understanding what we do and who we do it. — Ray Kurzweil

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that. — Michael Grant

The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation. — Robert Greene

Gwen knew that Martin had once been captured by federal agents. She didn't know that when he referred to being interrogated by the best, he was talking about his mother. — Scott Meyer

I used to get so jealous if my wife liked another band more than my own. Come to think of it, I still do. — Tom DeLonge

The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come. — John Howard Yoder

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — Benjamin Franklin

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no. — Billy Eichner