Ibn Al Khattab Quotes & Sayings

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. — Norman Granz

Anytime someone tries to do the right thing, it's a terrible strategy. — Heather Demetrios

Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension. — Verity Stob

Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity. — Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives. — Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

Don't come at me with logic," I hissed at him. "We're way past that. We've been through too much crap to be sensible. — Stacey Marie Brown

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill. — Barbara Castle

I wish that I could love someone so much that I would die from it. — Jamaica Kincaid

One is to a human and other is to adopt humanity — Qasim Raza Qadri

Ibn Mas'ud said, "When 'Umar died nine-tenth of all knowledge vanished with him." The people were shocked and said, "How can this be when among us now are still many of the great companions?" Ibn Mas'ud replied,"I am not speaking of the knowledge of fiqh and the science of judgements, I'm speaking about the knowledge of Allah." This struggle of isolation, hunger, sleeplessness, weeping, fear and endless service to men was for this end. The journey is only for knowledge of Allah and the whole of it lies in detachment from everything that passes away. First from what is displeasing to Allah, then from one's self-illusion and desires, and then from all men and all otherness until there is only isolation and extreme nearness to Allah. — Khalid Muhammad Khalid

A little holiday spirit lives forever in everyone. Test your own holiday spirit. Give away all of it you can. You'll see, it comes right back to you. — Ray Palla

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. — Stewart Brand

There are a lot of movies I would want to be a fly on the wall for. I would have loved to see the making of Jaws [1975], with all the fears and anxieties it was going to be a complete failure, and then to have it turn into the first blockbuster. — Cary Fukunaga

We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again. — Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

But that's the function I expect of you, cousin. It's why I chose you. I'll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you'll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don't be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar. — Frank Herbert

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her ... '
' ... Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
' ... Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck. — John Connolly

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change. — Edwin Way Teale