Islamic Pacifism Quotes & Sayings

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter. — Ludwig Von Mises

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither. — Edward Bouverie Pusey

Spirit over mind. Mind over matter. It's that simple — Sahndra Fon Dufe

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see — Duane Michals

When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written. — Ellen Klages

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States. — John Marshall

Max attacks Misery with the kind of vigor only reserved for really dirty ovens — Sarah Castille

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would be better off without it. — Jo Walton

I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage ... I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing. — Naomi Wallace

Basketball has always been a sport I loved and grew up playing. For me, it was one of those things that ... I guess baseball was just in my genes a little bit. I have a lot of cousins that played baseball. Basketball is not an easy sport - you definitely got to be gifted to play that game. I felt like I was pretty good at it, but my ability was better in baseball. — Dellin Betances

I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas ... because we can always learn more. — Sailor Jerry

For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing. — John Darnielle

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion ... To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes. — Noah Webster