Dawa Quotes & Sayings

I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph. — Cordell Hull

My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties. — Gary Busey

Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape. — Paul Virilio

Gentlemen, start your engines! — Tony Hulman

Our departure was as natural and inevitable as the sunrise. — Ron Currie Jr.

A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas - its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society. — Noam Chomsky

clients you'd swear up and down were total, unmitigated slobs, but they're actually the opposite - so hell-bent on 'clean and tidy,' they can't even start. Rather than fail, they give up. Their standards are so high, they're overwhelmed before they start. To them, it's better not even tackling the job. — Sue Grafton

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it. — Abby Elliott

DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it. — Ambrose Bierce

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India. — Imtiaz Ali

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions
if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong. — Michael Lewis