Ustazah Quotes & Sayings

Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.

I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney

For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

In Latin, to bless is benedicere, which means literally: saying good things. The Father wants to say, more with his touch than with his voice, good things of his children. He has no desire to punish them. They have already been punished excessively by their own inner or outer waywardness. The Father wants simply to let them know that the love they have searched for in such distorted ways has been, is, and always will be there for them. The Father wants to say, more with his hands than with his mouth: "You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests." He is the shepherd, "feeding his flock, gathering lambs in his arms, holding them against his breast. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

We are before one gaze and His is the only one that counts. — Dana Candler

I don't even like old cars. I mean, they don't even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human — J.D. Salinger

I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. — Graeme Simsion

Life is for living not achieving. — Debasish Mridha

I'm as old as I am, and I don't try to hide it. It's not a big deal. — Alan Arkin

and thought to tart it up with a few Shakespeare quotations, having a vague recollection from my undergraduate days that the Bard was fond of joking about the great pox. I dusted off my battered copy of the Riverside Shakespeare and started leafing through it. Holy crap, I thought, there is a lot of stuff here on syphilis. My curiosity was piqued, and I did some more digging. Was there a connection between Shakespeare's syphilitic obsession, contemporary gossip about his sexual misadventures, and the only medical fact known about him with certainty - that his handwriting became tremulous in late middle age? I wrote an article that appeared in Clinical Infectious Diseases, supposing it to be of scant interest beyond its immediate specialty audience. To my surprise, it generated a fair amount of Internet buzz, and inspired a segment on The Daily Show. I began to think that there might be interest in a book on the topic of writers and disease, written from a medical perspective. — John J. Ross

...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous. — Caitlin Doughty

Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special. — George R. Bach

No one likes the Electoral College, expect perhaps those who were elected because of it. No one likes gerrymandering, except those doing the gerrymandering. No one likes the filibuster, except those doing the filibustering. — Kevin Bleyer

Time heals all things. — Champ Bailey

Once, I started cheering for the wrong team. I was hot, and I heard 'Touchdown!' and I started doing high kicks, and I looked around and nobody else was cheering. — Sarah Shahi

Thank you, Dear Creator, for Life. Thank you for Dreams. Thank you for Ideas and Thoughts and Feelings. Most of all, thank you for choosing me to grow - just for today - and to know the Wonder of Your World and its many Possibilities. — Janie Jasin