Ibn Al Muqaffa Quotes

#1. The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Francis Bacon

#2. Wheels of justice grind slow but grind fine

Sun Tzu

#3. When I meet somebody I want to leave a better impression than when I got there.

Tim Tebow

#4. We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Carl T. Rowan

#5. As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

Nate Powell

#6. Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Andrew Solomon

#7. The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

Pusha T

#8. The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

Ray Charles

#9. As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't cook chapatis at home. I'd always say, 'Why do I have to do it? Why don't the men do it?'

Gurinder Chadha

#10. The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Oliver Goldsmith

#11. Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

Valerie Solanas

#12. The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

Herbert Croly

#13. I wonder-Did I peek through the veil impatiently, while you slowly forged the bonds that brought me to mortality? And do you now stand where I stodd yesterday, your cheeks against Heaven's curtain, and pray-Pray fervently for me to forge the bonds that bring us to eternity?

Carol Lynn Pearson

#14. Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

Friedrich Nietzsche