Nahda University Quotes & Sayings

One could only learn from the past and move on through the present to make a better future. — Jason Medina

The god of virginity is popular in the Arab world. It doesn't matter if you're a person of faith or an atheist, Muslim or Christian - everybody worships the god of virginity. Everything possible is done to keep the hymen - that most fragile foundation upon which the god of virginity sits - intact. At the altar of the god of virginity, we sacrifice not only our girls' bodily integrity and right to pleasure but also their right to justice in the face of sexual violation. Sometimes we even sacrifice their lives: in the name of "honor," some families murder their daughters to keep the god of virginity appeased. When that happens, it leaves one vulnerable to the wonderful temptation of imagining a world where girls and women are more than hymens. — Mona Eltahawy

Try this way of picturing a human lifespan. The National Football League's Dallas Cowboys' stadium holds 105,000 people. Now, imagine that you're watching life go by down on the field, and every day you watch that life go by from a different seat. You don't even get a third of the way around. Before you've settled into a third of the seats, you'd be dead. And, that's if you had a good run, eighty-two-plus years. Yikes! — Bill Nye

Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball. — Simon Brotherton

What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt. — James Lileks

The longer the night, the shorter the morning — Adam Johnson

It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. — Elliott Abrams

Inner feeling of satisfaction which may be observed in the presence of a sudden accident, even in those nearest and dearest to the victim ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream. — Van Morrison

Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial difference between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. — Robert D. Kaplan

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us. — Birch Bayh

Incidentally, I don't know how late you were planning to stay, but there is an excellent film this evening The Snake Pit. It's a wonderful comedy. I've seen it several times. — Daniel Pinkwater

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research. — Mike Pence

Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment. — T. S. Eliot