Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

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• Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Best
  • Controversial
  • Pie

• I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Strikes
  • Prohibition Law

• It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.

  

  Confucius
  • Failure
  • Appreciate
  • Abilities

• If one knows exactly what is going to be done, why do it?

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Knows
  • Going To

• ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Word
  • Unfortunate
  • Associated

• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Believe
  • Animals
  • Grow

• Having a hangover with small children is never a good idea. I did it once and it was the biggest mistake I've ever made, I've never felt so ill in my life. You have to get out of bed and look after your kid who doesn't care if you've got a sore head.

  

  Sharleen Spiteri Texas
  • Life
  • Children
  • Mistake

• And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Run
  • Sail
  • Splendid

• In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Cry

• When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.

  

  Alexandra Potter
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Fantasize

• I like to produce my own records, because I know in my head where I want to take it.

  

  John Rich Lonestar
  • Records
  • Head
  • Take

• Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

  

  Delbert L. Stapley
  • Character
  • Lives
  • Habits

• Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Sincere

• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • People
  • Real
  • Strange

• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Age
  • Tolerance
  • Brotherhood

• The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Uncertainty
  • Phenomena
  • Recognizes

• Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Sincere
  • Recognizes