Fotima Onamiz Quotes & Sayings

(1) Risk-taking behavior, essential for efforts at innovation, is more widespread in some societies than in others. (2) The scientific outlook is a unique feature of post-Renaissance European society that has contributed heavily to its modern technological preeminence. (3) Tolerance of diverse views and of heretics fosters innovation, whereas a strongly traditional outlook (as in China's emphasis on ancient Chinese classics) stifles it. (4) Religions vary greatly in their relation to technological innovation: some branches of Judaism and Christianity are claimed to be especially compatible with it, while some branches of Islam, Hinduism, and Brahmanism may be especially incompatible with it. — Jared Diamond

Sandman had two personalities. One could turn a female into his angel for the night in a blink, and the other could make a terrorist piss himself.' (Carlos) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When a problem is unsolvable, it ceases to be a problem. — Marty Rubin

I happen to believe that the deepest value of fiction is that, in its very fictiveness, it is the one arena where we can, at least temporarily, take apart and refuse to compete within the terms that the rest of existence insists on. Market value may come to drive out all other human values, except, perhaps, in the country of invented currency, the completely barter-driven economy of the imagination. Fiction, when it remembers its innate priority over other human transactions, can deal not in price but in worth. And that seems to me an act filled with political potential, as well as with pleasure. — Richard Powers

I knew exactly why I shouldn't be her friend. This was no mere attraction. What I suffered from was total, debilitating awareness. Every freaking inch of me tuned in to her. — Linda Kage

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place. — Lemony Snicket

They walked on in silence for a while, until Rudy said, "I just wish I was like Jesse Owens, Papa." This time, Mr. Steiner placed his hand on Rudy's head and explained, "I know, son - but you've got beautiful blond hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?" But nothing was clear. — Markus Zusak

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence. — Philip Larkin

They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true, and I've seen him so many times. — Princess Aurora

If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well. — Richelle Mead

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of a heart "abiding" in Christ. — Richard J. Foster

Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in. — Carl Jung

I am a country boy and proud of it. — Lionel Richie

There's a difference between story and side-story. Sometimes you have to write whatever's in your head, then determine which is which. — Khrys Vaughan

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man. — LeCrae