Mturk Forum Quotes & Sayings

Paradoxically, Islam is the most decentralized and yet, at the same time, the most rigid religion in the world. Everyone feels entitled to rule out free discussion. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When you were young you talked about 'falling in love' with such amusing gravity, as if it were an actual recordable event, when what was it really? Chemicals. Hormones. A trick of the mind. — Liane Moriarty

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave — Stephen Fry

It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as a glimpse, a correspondence with heaven. Our unquenchable thirst for all that lies beyond, and that life reveals, is the liveliest proof of our immortality. It is both by poetry and through poetry, by music and through music, that the soul dimly descries the splendours beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to our eyes, those tears are not a proof of overabundant joy: they bear witness rather to an impatient melancholy, a clamant demand by our nerves, our nature, exiled in imperfection, which would fain enter into immediate possession, while still on this earth, of a revealed paradise. — Charles Baudelaire

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America. — Ernest Istook

There 's nae sorrow there, John, There 's neither cauld nor care, John, The day is aye fair, In the land o' the leal. — Carolina Nairne

But what was truly upsetting was the way he separated my hands from his body. They wept silently. Either that or I was sweating. Most likely the latter. He had the weirdest effect on me. — Kylie Scott

I've seen too much of the beauty of the Lord's creation to ever doubt the Almighty. — Mary Connealy

Desires are nourished by delays. — Thomas Draxe

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. — James Russell Lowell

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels. — Carrie Vaughn

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah. — Mos Def

Art itself my be defined as a single-minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe. — Joseph Conrad

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be. — Simon Van Booy

We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win. — Rafael Nadal