Nuruddin Al Raniri Quotes & Sayings

One thing we can do really well for our students is to help them figure out their identity. — Soledad O'Brien

Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in. — Tony Hoagland

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us ... — Gunter Grass

Gods should not resemble men in their anger! — Euripides

If man were relieved of all superstition, and all prejudice, and had replaced these with a keen sensitivity to his real environment, and moreover had achieved a level of communication so simplified that one syllable could express his every thought, then he would have achieved the level of intelligence already achieved by his dog. — Robert Breault

Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road ... Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication ... the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger train, who ought to be in the stock car. — Edgar Wilson Nye