Bassam Tibi Quotes

A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

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• Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Peaceful
  • Bullets
  • Ballots

• I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Moment

• No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Myself

• I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • World
  • Myself
  • Problems

• When Rakesh Roshan called me for 'Khoon Bhari Maang,' it was supposed to be a six month shoot, but I ended up staying for four years doing 12 films.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Films
  • Supposed
  • Staying

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Better

• I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Limits

• Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Respect
  • U.S.
  • Atlanta

• Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Family
  • Future
  • Freedom

• I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Just
  • Cowboy
  • Frustrated

• In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Love
  • She

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Experience
  • Door

• Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

  

  Van Morrison

• You always have a chance when your special teams are on the job, especially on the road, and your goalie is giving you big saves.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Job
  • Road
  • Chance

• By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.

  

  David Truman
  • Life
  • Mean
  • Poetry

• If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it's probably the fact that I'm the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they've gotten used to it. It's one of those things I think they realize that when they say she'll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.

  

  Hillary Scott Lady Antebellum
  • Band
  • Causes
  • Conflict

• The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Government
  • Constitution
  • People's rights

• The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus credules. Ils croient les miracle de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moise.]

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Miracles
  • Moses

• A conflict of values is not a misunderstanding. Islamic orthodoxy and the German constitution are not compatible.

  

  Bassam Tibi
  • Constitution
  • Conflict
  • Orthodoxy