Ibtilaa Quotes & Sayings

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being. — Paul Mellon

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. — Oscar Wilde

The ibtilaa' (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come). — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla — Chris Jericho

You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening. — Eric Idle

I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it. — Rachel Dratch

If you know the North, you know where the South is; if you know the darkness, you know where the light is! Evil is an excellent compass to find the good! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes I hate it so much," she said. "Always having to pretend." Paul gripped her fingers tighter. "This is America," he said. "We're all pretending. — Graham Moore

There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases. — Vladimir Semichastny

Be the catalyst for change.
Empowering women, empowering humanity — Farhan Akhtar

If I knew I had to go through those experiences again," he finally said, "I'd kill myself. — Laura Hillenbrand

Answer: They war loving, they love laughing, they laugh weeping, they weep smelling, they smell smiling, they smile hating, they hate thinking, they think feeling, they feel tempting, they tempt daring, they dare waiting, they wait taking, they take thanking, they thank seeking, (...) — James Joyce

Before they deploy, they train for the specific operations, but there is a danger that the Army is not retaining the core of its full capabilities. — Des Browne

You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar