Tseten Tibetan Quotes & Sayings

In these pages, it is my intention to make many people - not only Muslims but also Western apologists for Islam - uncomfortable. I am not going to do this by drawing cartoons. Rather, I intend to challenge centuries of religious orthodoxy with ideas and arguments that I am certain will be denounced as heretical. My argument is for nothing less than a Muslim Reformation. Without fundamental alterations to some of Islam's core concepts, I believe, we shall not solve the burning and increasingly global problem of political violence carried out in the name of religion. I intend to speak freely, in the hope that others will debate equally freely with me on what needs to change in Islamic doctrine, rather than seeking to stifle discussion. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Don't ask questions - that was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys. — J.K. Rowling

If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away! — Dale Carnegie

There's no down time any more. — Jeff Foxworthy

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, — Arthur Miller

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime. — Elizabeth Kostova

The Easter egg which was not found
contained a letter from the hen who laid it,
saying Fuck your kids,
What about mine? — Shay Caroline

I think what Lawrence did was provide an assurance that gay and lesbian couples could live openly in society as free people and start families and raise families and participate fully in their communities without fear. And two things flowed from that, I think. One is that has brought us to the point where we understand now in a way even that we did not fully understand in Lawrence, that gay and lesbian people and gay and lesbian couples are full and equal members of the community. — Donald Verrilli Jr.

Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. — Gustave Flaubert

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending — Jodi Picoult

Education is the motor-force of revolution. — Bill Ayers