Abduh Quotes

#1. I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam,' and of his homeland 'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.

Imran Khan

#2. Sometimes I lose perspective, but it helps to stop and look around. I may not have it all, but I have more than enough. And enough, it seems, is more than most have ...

J.M. Darhower

#3. Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't have heads, although there are some. It's good to have a head because it puts some of the sensory organs - eyes, ears, whiskers or whatever - next to the CPU, the brain.

Seth Shostak

#4. I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

Robert Pattinson

#5. After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.

Felix Alba-Juez

#6. I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

Chelsea Clinton

#7. Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

Muhammad Abduh

#8. I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Muhammad Abduh

#9. If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Seamus Heaney

#10. As Needed' - Getting your personal needs met is a core requirement for mental health. Do you know what your needs are?

Tricia Ferrara

#11. To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

Muhammad Abduh

#12. 99.99% of your creation is complete before you see ANY physical evidence of it.

Esther Hicks

#13. Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of them, I keep one in the pencil cup on my desk. Maybe I go with the wrong kind of people but i'm just not likely to have twelve guests all sitting around simultaneously eating fruit.

Helene Hanff

#14. I don't know if this is a season of sweetness or one of sadness. But I'm learning that neither last forever.

Shauna Niequist

#15. Let's go with what you have to get what you want.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

Diane Ravitch

#17. I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

Stieg Larsson