Ibn Ul Qayyim Quotes & Sayings

The sepia tone of November has become blood-soaked with paper poppies festooning the lapels of our politicians, newsreaders and business leaders ... I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy. — Harry Leslie Smith

Now suddenly he had intimations of destiny; he could see that life had a secret geometry on which his rational mind had no purchase. But even as he was overcome with a desire to subdue his reason and find happiness, he also sensed that - for the moment at least - his yearning for happiness was not yet strong enough. — Orhan Pamuk

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain. — T. S. Eliot

To use the intelligence in any other than the habitual way is not to use the intelligence; it is to be irrational, to rave like a madman. — Aldous Huxley

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer. — Jeremy Irons