Tariq Ramadan Quotes

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Tariq Ramadan

• Weakness
• Consistency

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Real
  • History
  • House

• Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• Our intent of how we're going to play doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Play
  • Intent

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Business
  • You
  • Driving

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Bad
  • Future
  • Past

• I want to be a major force.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Want
  • Force
  • Major

• Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Fate
  • Decisions
  • Survive

• It's kind of nice to play somebody that isn't psychotic or half-machine or dead or dying or on a spaceship somewhere.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Dying

• I want to do an album with Steven Seagal.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Want
  • Album
  • Steven

• 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Done
  • Art
  • History

• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Quiet
  • Gone
  • Pirates

• This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Good
  • Surprised
  • Coup

• In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Trying

• The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Dog

• I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.

  

  Leo Buscaglia
  • Real
  • Powerful

• God Damn Belgium you were on tonight. Thank you for the love and passion you brought to the show with you tonight !!!

  

  Ken Casey
  • Passion
  • Show
  • Belgium

• You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Lose

• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

  

  William Halsey
  • Done
  • Problem
  • Courage

• I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

  

  Tom Hanks
  • People
  • Truth
  • Way

• Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Weakness
  • Consistency