Pickthall The Quotes & Sayings

So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

We (Easterners) are not like the Franks, who barter everything, even their most sacred feelings, even love. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll ... take out the drugs and you've got more time for the other two. — Steven Tyler

I myself have always, since that day, felt it my duty to give alms to murderers in Eastern lands. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

With a versatile player, there's no spot on the court you can't pass him the ball. You can do anything. — Kevin Durant

If you read novels you sympathize with people who are different kinds of people than you are. — Oakley Hall

I know I need to put my mouth on those pretty lips and kiss you," he said with so much conviction, it felt like a swarm of butterflies had been let loose in my stomach. "Do you know that, too? — Christina Lee

No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Good warrior knows when to lose a battle so she can live to fight the war. — Jennifer Donnelly

...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Looking round upon those eager, friendly faces, I compared them with the cold face of the [christian] missionary, who suddenly appeared to me as a great bird of prey — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war. — Robert Dallek

Men learn wisdom from their sins, not from their righteous deeds. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

Nitric oxide was known for destroying things. — Ferid Murad

In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture. — Marmaduke Pickthall

Each man must see with his own eyes and not another's. People are as one finds them, good or bad. They change with each man's vision, yet remain the same. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

There aren't any lions in England," Lenina almost snapped.
"And even if there were," the Savage added, with sudden contemptuous resentment, "people would kill them out of helicopters, I suppose, with poison gas or something. — Aldous Huxley

What both paradoxes show is that decisions based on probabilistic arguments are not logical decisions. Logic and probabilistic arguments are incompatible... Jerry Cornfield justified the findings that smoking causes lung cancer by appealing to a piling up of evidence, where study after study shows results that are highly improbable unless you assume that smoking is the cause of the cancer. Is it illogical to believe that smoking causes cancer? — David Salsburg

The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way. — Rajneesh

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

but is simplicity enough? — James C. Collins

No people are uninteresting. Their fate is like the chronicles of planets. Nothing in them is not particular, and planet is dissimilar from planet. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A man who journeys in the desert finds a guide among the desert people, and he who journeys on the sea trusts seamen. — Marmaduke William Pickthall

The Muslims have got Islam as a legacy, hence they fail to recognize its value — Marmaduke Pickthall

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics. — J. B. Pritzker

The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers. — Marmaduke Pickthall