Bucaille Islam Quotes & Sayings

There is no compulsion for man to accept the truth. But it is certainly a shame upon the human intellect when man is not even interested in finding out as to what is the truth! Islam teaches that God has given man the faculty of reason and therefore expects man to reason things out objectively and systematically for himself. To reflect and to question and to reflect. — Maurice Bucaille

Once you have endured sufferings, you can give someone strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership. — F Scott Fitzgerald

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving. — Chantal Kreviazuk

Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in. — Julie Buxbaum

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. — Alan Bennett

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain. — Garth Stein

Open text is one of a pair of terms popularized by Eco to refer to kinds of interpretative interactions between text and reader. An open text, unlike a closed one such as a work of popular fiction, is not aimed at a specific reader in a specific social context. It is also open in that its theme, structure and language are more complex, less explicit, more "open-ended": what other critics as Barthes in reception theory would call "Indeterminate". The open text constructs the model of its own reader as part of its structural strategy. — Katie Wales

It's a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving. — Rob Sheffield

Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known. — Bill Lipinski

A few minutes later, seemingly out of nowhere, he pointed to the dirt and said, "You know, white folks and black folks all buried over top of each other in here. I guess old white granddaddy and his brothers was buried in here too. Really no tellin who in this ground now." Only thing he knew for sure, he said, was that there was something beautiful about the idea of slave-owning white Lackses being buried under their black kin. "They spending eternity in the same place," he told me, laughing. "They must've worked out their problems by now! — Rebecca Skloot

Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case. — Thomas J. Watson

Man will desire oblivion rather than not desire at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way. — Amy Ryan