Endpapers Fabric Quotes & Sayings

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it. — Michael Mandelbaum

By entwining the story of his life with verses from the Quran and an acknowledgment of the new Christian terms to which he must adapt, Omar ibn Said created less a tale of conversion than a syncretic narrative: Like that of so many others, his is a story not of the religious remaking of a people but of a people remaking religious traditions to serve their altered circumstances. — Peter Manseau

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India. — B.R. Ambedkar

Sometimes, your ideas aren't as good as you think. Other times, the world just isn't ready for them. — Jeff Goins

The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences. — Richard M. Weaver

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them. — Plato

The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution — Matt Perman

I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged. — Jenji Kohan

Trying to map the brain has often been called cartography for fools. — Anonymous

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. — Frank Sinatra