Quran Martyrdom Quotes & Sayings

A drainless shower
Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm. — John Keats

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action? — Arthur Schopenhauer

The danger, of course, is that we spend time imagining that we would be happier elsewhere, and forget to cultivate happiness where fate has placed us. — Alexander McCall Smith

The great thing about meditation is that I don't ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things! — Rick Springfield

So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya. — Haruki Murakami

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. — Don Drysdale

I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb. — Ellen Glasgow

What else is there to do? — William Golding

Power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us. — Euripides

Emily woke to shadows and their voices. They looked different today, because the entire world hurt. The numbness had worn off sometime between sleep and awake, and she was seeing red. The shadows on the walls were not shadows at all, but red blobs consisting of teeth and claws. Her house reeked of pain.
The whole world was fucking bleeding. — Allie Burke

Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another. — George Eliot

Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection. — Swami Vivekananda

Examined in color through the adjustable window of a computer screen, the Mandelbrot set seems more fractal than fractals, so rich is its complication across scales. A cataloguing of the different images within it or a numerical description of the set's outline would require an infinity of information. But here is a paradox: to send a full description of the set over a transmission line requires just a few dozen characters of code. A terse computer program contains enough information to reproduce the entire set. Those who were first to understand the way the set commingles complexity and simplicity were caught unprepared-even Mandelbrot. — James Gleick

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations — Kevin Carson