Rafiq Quotes & Sayings

The present is the key to the past — Charles Lyell

The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past. — Geoffrey Barraclough

When it comes to morals & principles, a man in the 'real' world has two options; compromise or wait for sometime and then compromise. — Mohammad Rafiq Teli

I wish all this never had to change, says Rafiq, unexpectedly.
I'm pleased he's content and sad that a kid so young knows that nothing lasts. — David Mitchell

That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything. — Tariq Ramadan

But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela. And if later I saw that the black men I knew - Frank or Ray or Will or Rafiq - fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own - my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. — Barack Obama

Hedge scrambled away, but the first two skeletons grabbed his arms and lifted him off the ground. The coach dropped his bat and kicked his hooves. "Lemme go, ya stupid boneheads!" he bellowed. — Rick Riordan

A revolution was inevitably coming; the earth was destined to be reclaimed, renewed and revived. — Shizette Parker

The online world has subsumed the physical one. We live in the future. — Dan Wells

The only difference between Patriotism and Brand loyalty is that the latter doesn't kill you. — Mohammad Rafiq Teli

All Individuals in this world struggle and fight their own battles.Very Few choose to fight the battles worth fighting for.The ones that serve as an instrument of liberation,an instrument of hope and everything that is right with this world. — Mohammad Rafiq Teli

The most important decision we make is whether to be honestly fake or fake honesty. — Mohammad Rafiq Teli

Don't cry for them to be happy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

With the vague hope that it might somehow explain his dream, he took one of his old textbooks from the shelves and tried to read the chapter on lycanthropy. The book cataloged the queerly universal primitive beliefs that human beings could change into dangerous carnivorous animals. He skimmed the list of human wolves and bears and jaguars, human tigers and alligators and sharks, human cats and human leopards and human hyenas. The were-tigers of Malaysia, he read, were believed invulnerable in the transformed — Jack Williamson

He's got a pointy bald head, and too much flesh hanging around his neck. The resulting combination gives him an unlikely yet striking resemblance to an uncircumcised penis. I secretly call him Rumpelforeskin. — Megan McCafferty

Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization ... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge. — Felix Frankfurter

My friends often say I'm the most racist person they know against Asians. And it's sort of like, "If I make the joke first, then I have the power and I'm holding the cards and you're not going to put me down for that." — Pearl Tan