Karen Armstrong Quotes
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.Karen Armstrong
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
Aaron Siskind -
I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
Salva Kiir Mayardit -
In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
Baz Luhrmann -
There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
Becky G -
Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
E. W. Howe -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
K. Flay -
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
Patricia Highsmith
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright -
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.
Harlan Coben -
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson -
While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind was 'messing up my pretty face' when I was on my way to the ring to meet my opponent. Yet, people I'd meet along the way would always ask me if I was worried about my looks. Then they would go on to say that I was 'too pretty to box.'
Laila Ali -
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
Gary Johnson
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Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
Clarence Clemons -
Something should remind us once more that the great things in this universe are things that we never see.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren -
Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routineā¦ The bedrock of every religion, that your God is a promise, never to be encountered in this life, this universe.
Peter F. Hamilton -
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
Karen Armstrong