Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

Al-Shafi‘i

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• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Look
  • Laughter
  • Unexpected

• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Nothing

• If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Business
  • Future
  • Simple

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• I was never anorexic, so I was never that skinny. I was never bony-bony. But I remember thinking, I don't want to be this skinny.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Want

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• So many of us have friends or family who have battled cancer, and we know how important it is to find a cure.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• I learn my songs by ear.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Learn
  • Songs
  • Ear

• Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Like
  • Autumn
  • Hype

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Different
  • See

• Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Stars

• NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time

• Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.

  

  Wade Bowen
  • Family
  • Running
  • Phones

• Each time we make this shift and choose happiness, we experience a miracle. Our mind shifts from fearful delusions and reconnects to our truth, which is love. Creating these shifts requires a dedicated commitment to choosing love.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Experience

• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire
  • Quality
  • Personality

• But you know we’re always going to have to rely on the goodwill of those of you who are straight for our survival. And that’s the damned truth.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Truth
  • Survival
  • Good Will

• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Truth
  • Desire
  • Victory