Golden Age Of Islam Quotes

#1. I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam. The myth was invented by Jews in nineteenth-century Europe as a reproach to Christians.

Bernard Lewis

#3. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Kin Hubbard

#4. Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you look at history, you discover that the golden age of Spain is what actually produced what we call the guitar.

Cat Stevens

#5. Tis impossible to be sure of any thing but death and taxes.

Christopher Bullock

#6. Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.

Paul Hawken

#7. Freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others ...

John Geddes

#8. The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

Lanza Del Vasto

#9. The wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

John Geddes

#10. A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.

Laozi

#11. The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Ramana Maharshi

#12. It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.

Rowan Williams

#13. I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.

Drew Gilpin Faust

#14. Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

Victoria Alexander

#15. I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

Keith Miller

#16. We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. Arabic science throughout its golden age was inextricably linked to religion; indeed, it was driven by the need of early scholars to interpret the Qur'an.

Jim Al-Khalili

#18. He snorted. "What's that about? Investigating is what it's about.

Laurie Anne Marie