Degraba 30 Quotes & Sayings

That was one of the reasons I enjoyed talking with her. She was brutally honest and intimidatingly intelligent. — Nabeel Qureshi

Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does. — Jamie Glazov

That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' — J. C. Watts

I think whatever generation you're in has a nostalgia for the generations past and the generations you weren't in. — Meghan Daum

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. — Vin Diesel

By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy. — James K.A. Smith

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process. — Bidzina Ivanishvili

What cannot be made simple cannot be made clear and what is not clear will not get done. — Stephen Bungay

The people have a right to keep and bear arms. — Patrick Henry

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God. — Martin Luther

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist. — Marcel Duchamp

You ignore the little voices that tell you it's all stupid, and you keep going. — Neil Gaiman

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. — Stephen King