Mohtasib Quotes & Sayings

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

I read the note and it did not please me and I threw it away, so not even time could find it. — Richard Brautigan

To be like Christ is to be a Christian. — William Penn

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you. — Lemony Snicket

I was always laughing in church. — Tom Waits

For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You have a sense of what it is you must set out to do. But nothing will form yet. When you sit down to write or paint or form movement, it's like stepping over a cliff or into a dense fog. All you can do is trust that this impending masterpiece is going to somehow manifest itself as you work. But you do know that there is something specific ahead, and you feel the excitement of that. — Vinita Hampton Wright

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship. — Dave Barry

My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members. — Jason Mraz

Indeed, organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a good first step would be to build up a critical mass of those willing to 'come out,' thereby encouraging others to do so. Even if they can't be herded, cats in sufficient numbers can make a lot of noise and they cannot be ignored. — Richard Dawkins

Nostalgia [10w]
Nostalgia is a time machine
set to your perfect past. — Beryl Dov

It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on the world as a mass of truth, and as the word of God; they have disputed and wrangled, and have anathematized each other about the supposable meaning of particular parts and passages therein; one has said and insisted that such a passage meant such a thing, another that it meant directly the contrary, and a third, that it meant neither one nor the other, but something different from both; and this they have called understanding the Bible.
It has happened, that all the answers that I have seen to the former part of 'The Age of Reason' have been written by priests: and these pious men, like their predecessors, contend and wrangle, and understand the Bible; each understands it differently, but each understands it best; and they have agreed in nothing but in telling their readers that Thomas Paine understands it not. — Thomas Paine

If you listen to the beginning of the whispers you will not have to hear the shouts. — Miranda J. Barrett

You can start from where you are with what you've got and go to where it is you want to go. — Zig Ziglar

Our Land is alive, Esperanza, -Esperanza Rising — Pam Munoz Ryan