Hamza Yusuf Quotes

We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

Hamza Yusuf

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• That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Ball
  • Everybody

• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Think
  • Problem

• All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Everything
  • Normal

• If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • Way
  • Successful
  • Honest

• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Enough
  • Dreams
  • Use

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Worry
  • Mistake

• 'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Like
  • Where
  • Got

• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • You
  • Yourself

• The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Great
  • Business

• I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Down
  • Lucky
  • Getting Older

• One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Limits
  • Only
  • Exceeding

• Well, but I want to see Mrs. Cumfrit a minute—it isn’t late—it’s quite early—I’ll go in for just a minute——’ And thrusting the wrap into her hand he made for the drawing-room. She watched him shut the door behind him, and hoped it didn’t matter, her not announcing him. After all, he had but lately left; it wasn’t as if he were calling that day for the first time. On the contrary, this was the third time since lunch that he had come in.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Lunch
  • Hoped
  • Announcing

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Political
  • Step

• At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.

  

  Hamlin Garland
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Trees

• You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Night
  • Funny
  • Play

• We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Power
  • Hearts
  • Other