Malcolm X Boulevard Quotes & Sayings

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change. — James Salter

The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. — Pope Francis

The first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other. — Deborah Harkness

We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded;
we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven. — H.D.

And what is love but a four-letter word for trouble? — Elizabeth Cunningham

Democracy is a hegemonic tool of the West and contrary to Islam. Why do you act as though the entire world needs democracy? And when it comes to homosexuality, the issue is clearly dealt with by the Koran. It says it is forbidden and should be punished. — Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments. — Mary Balogh

The process of growth is, it seems, the art of falling down. Growth is measured by the gentleness and awareness with which we once again pick ourselves up, the lightness with which we dust ourselves off, the openness with which we continue and take the next unknown step, beyond our edge, beyond our holding, into the remarkable mystery of being. — Stephen Levine

I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word. — Pharoah Sanders

It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards, that certain mathematical statements are irrefutable facts. What is unfortunate about this is that a proof, in spite of the fact that it is perfectly correct, does not in any way have to be enlightening. Thus, mathematicians, and mathematics students, are faced with two problems: the generation of proofs, and the generation of internal enlightenment. To understand a theorem requires enlightenment. If one has enlightenment, one knows in one's soul why a particular theorem must be true. — Herbert S. Gaskill

The pistachio: it's just like our politics. When the two sides are divided, that's when the nuts come out. — Stephen Colbert

The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time. — Nikki Sanderson