Flatlands Book Quotes & Sayings

What can my enemies do to me?
I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha]. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Telling the story is doing the work of justice! — Brian Forschner

For still in mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness of forgiving. — John Greenleaf Whittier

Admire all the stars, but what you really must admire is your very own Sun, the cosmic candle of our beloved Earth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people. — Richard Branson

When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby. — Claire Coffee

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know. — Denise Levertov

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go ... — William McKinley

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice. — Perry Chen

People like to define you through what they've seen you do ... There are aspects of my personality, I guess, that come through on-screen, but I don't sit around thinking, I've been a bumbling suitor all my life. — Ben Stiller

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get. — Bill Bryson

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselves — Fernando Pessoa