Riyria Book Quotes & Sayings

Wealth and property are the servants of body which is the vehicle of soul of which the essence is knowledge and for which there is honor of soul. — Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices. — George Papandreou

He contrasts it with eloquence. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds! Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." We all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love. — Henry Drummond

Only he who has the power to punish can pardon. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off. — Erik Larson

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. — Oscar Wilde