Colourful Islamic Quotes & Sayings

In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid. — John Pilger

I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes. — Tess Gerritsen

It doesn't matter what you love,
it matters only that you love. — Jens Bjorneboe

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! — George M. Cohan

After fulfilling its destructive urge towards everything that is noble and good on earth, it [naive Religion] sketches, in its opium intoxication, a picture of the future situation, which differs drastically from the order of this world, since everything changes and is renewed. — Bruno Bauer

Love means making time for that special someone - even when you don't have the time. — Charline Ratcliff

Despite all the labels, in most ways I'm really not different from anyone else. I guess if you had to label me, you could say I'm like the girl next door. I'm like the girl a few doors down. — Ellen DeGeneres

He hesitated a moment, shifted the load to his left arm and mimed a sword stroke in the air. Crowley looked over his shoulder at the serving boy with some concern. "Planning on beheading me, are you?" he asked. Rafe smiled at him. "No sir, Ranger. Just getting the right side, like. Just shift yourself over while I put these down, before I forget which side is which, now." Crowley — John Flanagan

There are generally at least three sides to any story, though."
"Three?"
"One side, the other side, and the truth. — Garon Whited

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. — Dean Kamen

There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good. — Les Miles

There are some strange unrecognized forms of prostitution with which prostitution itself is an honest trade: at least you get something for your money. — Heinrich Boll

People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. — Kinky Friedman

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself - something you cannot prove for certain. — Seth Adam Smith