Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri Quotes
The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
Carine Roitfeld -
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 amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
T. E. Lawrence -
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Adam Grant -
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
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
Walter Kirn -
I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
P. J. O'Rourke -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
Samuel Johnson -
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter Lippmann -
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
Gail Collins
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden -
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
Barry Eisler -
I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
Samuel Johnson -
I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.
M. H. Abrams -
Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
Aulus Gellius -
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop
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All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
Delmore Schwartz -
A great story poorly told doesn't do anybody any good at all, and nobody wants to hear it, and nobody wants to read it. The craft of it is really more important than the subject matter.
Jason Isbell -
The less [government] the better.
Drew Carey -
If I ain't horny, I check to see if my heart's beatin'.
Richard Pryor -
It is hard to think of anything more vile than to intentionally desecrate the Body of Christ.
William Anthony Donohue -
The function of religion means that faith is a lamp in our lives which illuminates the path for people.
Ali Zain al-Abidin al-Jifri