Kafiristan Quotes & Sayings

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through. — Sara Sheridan

I'm going to say this tonight because 20 years from now, 30 years from now, 40 years from now, I might not be able to say it, but I can say it tonight ... You are now watching the greatest living rock star on the planet — Kanye West

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them. — Saint Augustine

But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is a kind of of machine which the reader can freely use as a generator of intellectual stimulation. It is enough that the book should be truly a machine for thinking, that it should generate a variety of possible conclusions without its author's ordaining and limiting them in advance. — Umberto Eco

They absorb carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and give out oxygen. What could be more desirable? And they look good in the bargain. Stop chopping down the rain forests and plant more saplings, and we're on our way. — Isaac Asimov

Richard knew he was fighting for his life, and he was terribly happy. — Ellen Kushner

Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company
just not pants-worthy company
... — Ransom Riggs

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr

Sufism is not a religion or a philosophy, it is neither deism nor atheism, nor is it a moral, nor a special kind of mysticism, being free from the usual religious sectarianism. If ever it could be called a religion, it would only be as a religion of love, harmony, and beauty. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing. — John C. Maxwell

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. — Ivan Krastev

You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail. — Matt Groening

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest. — John Muir

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — Sarah Josepha Hale

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. — John Oates