Siyaha Quotes & Sayings

What can my enemies do to me?
I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden.
If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me.
Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa].
To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada]
And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha]. — Ibn Taymiyyah

your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell. — Andrew Davidson

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman ... [the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren't there. — Michelle Orange

I should have kissed you I should have pushed you up against the wall I should have kissed you Just like I wasn't scared at all Gloriana — Melanie Walker

You must remember to love people and use things, rather than to love things and use people. — Fulton J. Sheen

Lesson: Finishing first has many different reasons. Run your race. — Erik Qualman

Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield

Successful (working) but undesigned applications carry the seeds of their own destruction; they are easy to write, but gradually become impossible to change. — Sandi Metz

Faith is Hope on a treadmill. Love is the reason we stay on. — Solange Nicole

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball. — Kobo Abe

The 'deep' civic function of the humanities ... is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled. — Mark Slouka

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power ... — Joseph Sobran

You call yourself a gentleman, yet you stare at me." "I never called myself a gentleman." "You are a gentleman and you still stare." "If I do, the fault is your own. You are a complicated lass, Lael Click." She set the dishes down with a clatter. Complicated? She wouldn't ask him to explain himself. She didn't have to. He leaned back against a porch post, stretched his legs, and crossed his shiny black boots. "You went tae one of the finest finishing schools in the colonies, yet I find you barefoot and bonnetless and making social calls tae Indians, wi' your hair down tae boot. And unchaperoned, as weel. — Laura Frantz

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film. — Krzysztof Kieslowski