Plenum Rated Quotes & Sayings

The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully that lay towards the city, where, in the feeble shade of emaciated mulberries, a muddy stream lived out its last days in the diabolical heat. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Instead of an outer-oriented jihad - defined as "the war against infidels" and carried out by many in those days just as in the present - Rumi stood up for an inner-oriented jihad where the aim was to struggle against and ultimately prevail over one's ego, nafs. — Elif Shafak

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.' — Halle Berry

Always remember that, every time you step out of your comfort zone, you step into God's comfort zone. — Mark Cahill

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you. — Craig Ferguson

It's not that Jesus is the copy of Israel coming out of Egypt, but that Israel coming out of Egypt was the copy - in advance - of Jesus. — Russell D. Moore

What whites have rarely had to think about - because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least - is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human. — Tim Wise

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. — John Milton