Ketingting Quotes & Sayings

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world. — Asra Nomani

In managing our transport systems, our governments must constantly negotiate the paradox of mass movement. They must create a system which, for the sake of speed and efficiency, treats us like a herd, constantly prodded and coralled, divided, re-formed and forced into line. At the same time it must grant us the illusion of autonomy. — George Monbiot

I am certain and have always stressed that the destination of mankind is to become more and more humane. The ideal of humanity has to be revived. — Albert Schweitzer

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind. — Aldo Leopold

You hear people mention being in love. It's like a sickness I've never had. — Ron Hansen

As good marketers, we like to tinker with things and make them better. — Michael Freeman

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him. — Andrew Murray

He called after her as she
disappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry ... — Truman Capote

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists. — Ellsworth Kelly

I've been homeless on a few occasions. — Jay Electronica