Schlimmer Smiles Quotes & Sayings

Modesty becomes blameworthy if it prevents one from denouncing what clearly should be denounced, such as tyranny or corruption. This form of modesty results in meekness at a time when one needs to be forthright and courageous. Something condemnable (munkar) is condemnable regardless of the status of the person who is engaged in it - whether he or she is a close relative or a person of status, wealth, or authority. There must be agreement, however, among scholars on what is condemnable. One cannot, for example, declare decisively that something is considered condemnable if there is a difference of opinion on it among the scholars. Scholars knowledgeable of the plentitude of juristic differences rarely condemn others. They refrain from such condemnation not because of modesty but because of their extensive knowledge and scholarly insight. Unfortunately, many people today are swift to condemn, which creates another disease: self-righteousness. — Hamza Yusuf

Faith, sir, as to that matter, I don't believe one half of it myself. — Diedrich Knichkerbocker

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. — Marc Andreessen

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working. — Jack Ma

May 27, 2013 It's hard not to think about Chris on his twenty-first birthday. — Cassia Leo

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing. — Alexandre Dumas

I'm used to really struggling and facing a hard time to get things going, until I'm comfortable at all with them. — Seth Rogen

When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair. — Orhan Pamuk

I will never turn to God. — Marianne Wiggins