Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Quotes
The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
Tamara Tunie
It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
T. C. Boyle
I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
Carl Lewis
I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
Ralph Fiennes
I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
Gail Sheehy
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
Lake Bell
Insults are the business of the court.
Naguib Mahfouz
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
Ramana Maharshi
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot
I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Dan Feuerriegel
No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.
Samuel Beckett
Only value the opinion of those that you respect. And anyone that you don’t respect, pay no mind to their opinion about you or anything else.
Lady Gaga
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
Thomas Sowell
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
Fatos Nano
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
E. B. White
The divides are not Islam and western society, the divide is between people who have different values. We must promote connections between people who want to contribute to human values. People who share that commitment can collaborate across cultural divides.
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
