Rastadlia Quotes & Sayings

But every line we write breathes victory and challenge, the bad temper of a conqueror, underground explosions, howls. We are a volcano. We vomit forth black smoke.
The heavens open and out comes an imposing
Pile of garbage; it looks a lot like Leo Tolstoy — Velimir Khlebnikov

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena. — Saul Bellow

An Islamic university ... structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man ... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on. — George Orwell

Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business. — Calvin Coolidge

Understand that to achieve success in your efforts, you must try to be reliable and on time for everything -your job, dinner parties, doctor appointments- everything. — Dianna DeLonzor

It's not gambling to play
against someone who's no good. It's common sense. — Terry Pratchett

Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult. — Eugene Ormandy

Whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up — Lewis Carroll

That man would kill for me. He would die for me. And he would fuck me to death if I asked him.
I was tempted. What a way to go. — Karina Halle

I find that men are far more vain than women. — Patricia Arquette

It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe. — H.A.L. Fisher

Study to learn, do not study to pass". — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar. — David Whyte