Hijrah 1442 Quotes & Sayings

I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible. — Andrew Sullivan

My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Our lust is furious and our greed limitless in pursuing wealth and honors, chasing after power, heaping up riches, and gathering all those vain things which seem to give us grandeur and glory. On the other hand, we greatly fear and hate poverty, obscurity, and humility, and so we avoid these realities in every way. Thus, we see that those who order their lives according to their own counsel have a restless disposition. We — John Calvin

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun. — Jimmy Buffett

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. — Bob Dylan

Despair is the only genuine atheism. — Jean Paul

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner

Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think doing variations on a classical theme is a dangerous thing to do. — Tori Amos

Nothing had ever happened to me, and now everything was happening to me
and by everything, I really meant Lena. An hour was both faster and slower. I felt like I had sucked the air out of a giant balloon, like my brain wasn't getting enough oxygen. Clouds were more interesting, the lunchroom less disgusting, music sounded better, the same old jokes were funnier, and Jackson went from being a clump of grayish-green industrial buildings to a map of times and places where I might run into her. — Kami Garcia

As writer Isak Dinesen put it, All sorrows can be borne if we put them in a story or tell a story about them. — Sue Monk Kidd

Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams. — Timothy Pina

Don't be afraid to fall in love with ideas, with places, with subjects, with people. You'll fall in and out of love many times, but this is how we figure it out. This is how we learn what we love, this is how we recognize what we want, this is how we know what we need and, maybe just as important, what we do not need. — Patti Digh

Indeed we generally remember ancient civilizations best by those buildings which most exploited the labor of ordinary people and most glorified the vanity of a single autocrat. — Chris Brazier

Non numerantur sed ponderantur
(They are not counted but weighed) — Paul Hoffman