Kunnukku Quotes & Sayings

Even the most extreme Islamophile responses to Islam can still provoke accusations of Islamophobia. But when it comes to Christianity, it appears that you cannot uphold its doctrines without immediately being accused of obscurantism or bigotry. This results from a profound disdain in intellectual circles towards the religion underpinning the West, and a corresponding exaggerated respect for what are presumed to be the cultures of the underdeveloped world. The result positively encourages a critical approach to Christianity while refusing to permit anyone to say/write anything critical of Islam. The result is an approach to Islam which is not just uncritical but slavish. — Douglas Murray

The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States. — Lea Salonga

I am often amused when women with little or no experience in housekeeping and/or unaccustomed to performing household chores, upon stumbling on a man almost miraculously become domesticated. — D. Cypriani Regis

Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Jesus was often busy, but never hurried. — John Ortberg

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies. — George MacDonald

People don't commit suicide. They get lost in darkness because they can't find any lights of hope. — Debasish Mridha

Atheists are not Americans. — George H. W. Bush

The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them. — Benjamin Franklin

On a fulcrum in my chest, grief and relief are balanced in equal measure. — Nayomi Munaweera

A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey - a non-preying mantis if you like. — Douglas Adams

It was Sunday
not a day, but rather a gap between two other days. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Oh yeah, and how do I know that? Because from where I stand, if you hadn't stepped in, I think he might have."
He laughed. "Damien doesn't even know what he's doing. He spiked your drink because he was nervous - why do you think he backed down so easily?"
"So that makes it all okay, does it?" I snapped. "Because he was too nervous to get laid for the first time the simple, safe way? That's petty and sick..." Then something occurred to me. "But why me?"
Brett dropped his gaze to his tan suede hiking boots. He paused and tapped a toe against the linoleum.
"Brett?" I snapped, knowing he was keeping something from me.
"I may have suggested he talk to you," he murmured.
"What? Oh for fuck's sake!"
"Damien wouldn't have hurt you, Colt. — Shaye Evans

The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend,
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
Secure against its own,
No treason it can fear;
Itself its sovereign, of itself
The soul should stand in awe. — Emily Dickinson