Fathima Group Quotes & Sayings

Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge. — Ramakrishna

I'm fitter than I've ever been, I'm actually very, very healthy and I'm happy. — Shane Warne

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. — Claire Tomalin

The bricoleur, says Levi-Strauss, is someone who uses 'the means at hand,' that is, the instruments he finds at his disposition around him, those which are already there, which had not been especially conceived with an eye to the operation for which they are to be used and to which one tries by trial and error to adapt them, not hesitating to change them whenever it appears necessary, or to try several of them at once, even if their form and their origin are heterogenous - and so forth. There is therefore a critique of language in the form of bricolage, and it has even been said that bricolage is critical language itself ... If one calls bricolage the necessity of borrowing one's concepts from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or ruined, it must be said that every discourse is bricoleur. — Jacques Derrida

Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards. — Eustache Deschamps

I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt. I have always faithfully observed the one, up to the very moment of bursting, sometimes with volcanic vehemence, into the other. — Charlotte Bronte

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron

They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change. — Mohsin Hamid

God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong. — Anne Frank

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. — Germaine Greer

Eviction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty. — Matthew Desmond

Success is more difficult to handle than failure. — Ravi Zacharias

When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull. — Henry Miller

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me. — Henry A. Kissinger