Toif Location Quotes & Sayings

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big. — Theodore Roosevelt

An Islamic university ... structure is different from a Western University; [its] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man, or the universal man ... A Muslim scholar is a man who is not a specialist in any one branch of knowledge but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative in several branches of related knowledge. — Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. — Seneca The Younger

Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.

Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.

To life,
I am, thankful. — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be. — Lisa Vidal

The king was pregnant. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Why is Mommy crying?" the young boy asks his dad, all sugared up and bewildered with concern. "Because you're an asshole," barks back the father with exasperated logic. — John Waters

The wisdom of skin is underappreciated. — David Mitchell

People often say that the beginning of the rainy season is a bad time for sick people — Aya Kito

You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess. — Benjamin Kane Ethridge

You? - his words overwhelmed him with a realization of the cowardice which had driven him from her at the very moment of attainment. Yes - he had always feared his fate, and he was too honest to disown his cowardice now; — Edith Wharton