Thabit Ibn Qurra Quotes & Sayings

Empowerment Is Something Someone Gives You. Self Leadership Is What You Do To Make It Work. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

The humorless puzzle of inequality and hate. His experience raised the question of worth and values, of aggressive inferiority and aggressive arrogance. — Maya Angelou

SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE. — Herschel Walker

So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight. — Sally Ride

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires. — Shan Sa

Sometimes, the only way to set things right is to do what is difficult. — Marie Lu

I've never wanted anyone, like I want you. Every girl is you to me. You're all I see ... you're all I want. — S.C. Stephens

After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled with spiders. — Erica Cameron

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist ... it was a great education in human nature. — Jonathan Kellerman

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that now exist; an eternal veil of forgetfulness will lie over them, just as there is now over those things that came before. — Adalbert Stifter

The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely man's most fatal creation, the devil's kitsch bitch. It was God, with his insistence on being worshipped and admired, who made the argument of art necessary, keeping the fire of dissent alive in men and women. This dissident was the artist, who spanned with his imagination reason and unreason, the under and the over, the dream and the world, men and women. — Hanif Kureishi

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies. — Camille Paglia

He took blue and red and placed them next to each other, painting the eyes of an angel. And I saw the angel's eyes turn violet — Milorad Pavic

What is a hero without love for mankind. — Doris Lessing

Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize. — F. Sionil Jose