Sizewise Quotes & Sayings

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have. — Richard Dawkins

In fact, the term "holy war" originates not with Islam but with the Christian Crusaders who first used it to give theological legitimacy to what was in reality a battle for land and trade routes. "Holy war" was not a term used by Muslim conquerors, and it is in no way a proper definition of the word jihad. There are a host of words in Arabic that can be definitively translated as "war"; jihad is not one of them. The word jihad literally means "a struggle," "a striving," or "a great effort." In its primary religious connotation (sometimes referred to as "the greater jihad"), it means the struggle of the soul to overcome the sinful obstacles that keep a person from God. This is why the word jihad is nearly always followed in the Quran by the phrase "in the way of God. — Reza Aslan

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. — Mircea Eliade

Before. I'm so in charge I could be the fucking Energizer bunny. — J.J. McAvoy

I'm a predator. I wait for women to tell me what they want, and then I convince them that I can give it to them."
I laugh. "I already know you're a man. Tell me something new. — Tarryn Fisher

It's okay ... it will be okay. You're just young. Your'e young and inexperienced, and Kellan is hotter than all fuck. — S.C. Stephens

Limit love and you limit life. — Vera Stanley Alder

I had come to see that the great tragedy in the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor but that rich Christians do not know the poor ... I truly believe that when the rich meet the poor, riches will have no meaning. And when the rich meet the poor, we will see poverty come to an end. — Shane Claiborne

Sizewise, she's always been just smaller than me.
But I think of her and I feel like she's as big as the world. — Patrick Ness

Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs. — Fawn M. Brodie

The skin is an integral part of the body and depends upon the general system for its supply of food and to carry away its waste. Skin health depends primarily upon the general health of the body. All attempts to deal with the skin as an independent entity, without due regard to its reliance upon the general system, must of necessity result in failure. The skin is nourished by the blood and there is no other source from which it can draw sustenance. "Skin foods" are all frauds. These are composed chiefly of grease. No fat can be assimilated by the skin or other tissues of the body until it has first been broken down into its constituent fatty acids in the process of digestion. Even were this not true, the skin contains very little fat and these "skin foods" would still not constitute proper nourishment for it. Blood is the only skin food. — Herbert M. Shelton

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. — Kate Chopin

If we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. — Stephen Nachmanovitch