Yaqub Quotes & Sayings

Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle? — Jorge Luis Borges

The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory. — Giacomo Casanova

We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him. — Yaqub Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi

No one wants to read a math book. — Erin Duffy

The only religion with God is Islam — Yaqub Khan

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks. — Warren Farrell

The first thought is often the best. — Joseph Butler

It's because you're letting the fairy tales you grew up hearing in storybooks and the baseless ideas of love cloud your mind. Love isn't easy. Especially the really good kind. It's difficult, and you'll want to rip your hair out just as many days you'll feel the wind at your back." She paused smiling to herself. "But it's worth it. It's worth fighting for — Nicole Williams

[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field. — James Wolcott

Asked how he became a star, Mr. Carson once replied, I started in a gaseous state and then I cooled. — Johnny Carson

"In one way or another, this is the oldest story in America: the struggle to determine whether "we, the people" is a spiritual idea embedded in a political reality - one nation, indivisible - or merely a charade masquerading as piety and manipulated by the powerful and privileged to sustain their own way of life at the expense of others." — Bill Moyers

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. — Albert Camus

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different. — Bernhard Langer

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, / because he has anointed me / to bring glad tidings to the poor. / He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives / and recovery of sight to the blind, / to let the oppressed go free, / and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. — Stephen S. Wilbricht

Isn't it interesting that all of those people who support the choice of abortion have already been born? — Ronald Reagan

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado. — Tom McClintock