Orrinshire Quotes & Sayings

I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure. — Wayne McGregor

And wished with all her power to wish anything, that the woman would simply continue her last words and say, "Are you really so glad to have met me? Then why can't we see each other again? Why can't we even have lunch together today?" Her voice was so casual, and she might have said it so easily. — Patricia Highsmith

The homelessness of nature, its utter indifference to human existence, disclose to the infinite player that nature is the genius of the dramatic. — James P. Carse

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end. — Malcolm Lowry

We can be knowledgeable with another man's knowledge, but we can't be wise with another man's wisdom. — Michel De Montaigne

The global nature of the religious knowledge of a learned Muslim sitting in Isfahan in the fourteenth century was very different from that of a scholastic thinker in Paris or Bologna of the same period. On the basis of the Quranic doctrine of religious universality and the vast historical experiences of a global nature, Islamic civilization developed a cosmopolitan and worldwide religious perspective unmatched before the modern period in any other religion. This global vision is still part and parcel of the worldview of traditional Muslims, of those who have not abandoned their universal vision as a result of the onslaught of modernism or reactions to this onslaught in the form of what has come to be called fundamentalism. — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment. — Dan Buettner

I'm lucky I had signposts in my life. At important times, I got pointed in the right direction by particular circumstances. — Kerry Stokes