Ijtihad Kontemporer Quotes & Sayings

If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan. — T.F. Hodge

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside. — Donald Hall

Look down and show some mercy if you can.
Look down, look down, upon your fellow man. — Victor Hugo

The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15. — Marsha Blackburn

Then he was quiet, and Nina didn't have anything to say. But he stayed on the phone, she could hear him breathing, and so she kept it to her ear while she pulled out their plates, heated their food, wrapped utensils in napkins. He stayed right there, and didn't say good-bye until she did. He just stayed right there. — Mary Ann Rivers

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles. — Franklin Pierce

Brushing my little teeth every morning of my childhood, I stood on my tippy toes, leaned over the sink and said to myself that when I am a big girl I will see from this high.
Today I did the same thing, but the view from my toes was the same from flat feet.
I'm a big girl now. — Audrey Regan

To place your trust in visible things is to live in despair. — Thomas Merton

Life just seems too huge and too fascinating for me to begin thinking about curing my restlessness at this stage of the game. Maybe later. — Hunter S. Thompson

That which besets me is indifference. I can't be bothered about people. Or rather, I won't. For I avoid, carefully, all occasions of being bothered ... a person who, so far as self-knowledge is concerned, is just a moron. — Aldous Huxley