Al-Shafi‘i Quotes

Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

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• Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.'

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • World
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• I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Real
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• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
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• I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.

  

  Halsey
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• I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • World
  • Live
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• The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Proud

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Different
  • You
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• The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Process
  • Imitation

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Run

• I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Home
  • Cold
  • Christmas

• But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in – make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer
  • Point
  • Reader

• If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Kids
  • Amazing
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• My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Father
  • Childhood
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• I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Movies

• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Charity
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• Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Reader
  • Reflected
  • Immature

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• Men who are not loyal to their wives are foolish.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Men
  • Loyal
  • Wives

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• Khaemwaset’s eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank with its choked river growth, its darting, piping birds, its busy insects and occasionally its sleepy grinning crocodiles, was a wealth of rich black soil in which the fellahin were struggling, knee-deep, to strew the fresh seed.

  

  Pauline Gedge
  • Life
  • Wealth
  • Khaemwaset

• Do not vie with others in the accumulation of wealth. Vie with them in Ibadaah.

  

  Al-Shafi‘i
  • Wealth
  • Accumulation
  • Vie