Arri Re Quotes

#1. Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.

Al-Ma'arri

#2. If you can see yourself doing something, you can do it. If you can't see yourself doing it, usually you can't achieve it.

David Goggins

#3. Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

Andrea Corr

#4. When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

#5. The inhabitants of the earth are of two sorts: those with brains, but no religion, and those with religion, but no brains.

Al-Ma'arri

#6. They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me
that these are a fiction from first to last.
O Reason, thou (alone) speakest the truth.
Then perish the fools who forged the religious traditions or interpreted them!

Al-Ma'arri

#7. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Al-Ma'arri

#8. O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold
Are but a cheat contrived by men of old
Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust
And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

Al-Ma'arri

#9. Happiness is having a cat for "fuzz therapy". Preferably one with trimmed claws.

Matthias Leue

#10. A little doubt is better than total credulity

Al-Ma'arri

#11. on the other hand, is anything for which less is preferred to more. For Homer, much like most people, work is

Joshua Hall

#12. I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Joy Davidman

#13. When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.

Karen Horney

#14. They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

Al-Ma'arri

#15. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

Al-Ma'arri

#16. Reason forbade me many things which,
Instinctively, my nature was attracted to;
And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing,
I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.

Abu'l-A'la Al-Ma'arri

#17. The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.

Jonathan Haidt

#18. My name is Leah, and I will do anything to keep my husband.

Tarryn Fisher

#19. Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray
Jews wildered, Magians far on error's way.
We mortals are composed of two great schools
Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

Al-Ma'arri

#20. Usually there is a paradox in what a character wants. A conflict is built deeply within them. And then you put them in motion, throw everything at them until they reveal themselves further.

Dana Spiotta