Ibn Rushd Quotes

#1. You will see, as time goes by", said Ibn Rushd, "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates.

Salman Rushdie

#2. My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

Joseph Heller

#4. The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

V.S. Naipaul

#5. People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.

Wylie Dufresne

#6. The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

Alanus De Rupe

#7. Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

RuPaul

#8. Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.

Richard Watson

#9. In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold

#10. He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. The Lannisters never declined, graciously or otherwise. The Lannisters took what was offered.

George R R Martin

#12. In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends.

Rachel Sklar

#13. The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

Helen Keller

#14. Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

Margot Asquith

#15. Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Doc Watson

#16. Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.

Warren G. Bennis

#17. I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

B.B. King

#18. Two truths cannot contradict one another.

Ibn Rushd