Khattab Ibn Quotes

#1. Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

E.B. White

#2. You never hear a prophecy start with the gods were in error. If it's good, thank the gods - but if it's bad, it's your own damn fault!

Gregory S. Close

#3. We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Douglas Kennedy

#4. But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.

Colin Wilson

#5. Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

#6. Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha.

Sara Wilson

#7. No wonder Edward was such a crazy driver," I muttered. "Who's Edward?" Elyssa asked. "You know, from Twilight.

John Corwin

#8. Hey Baby. Baby? You're kidding me, right? I was trying it out. No? No.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

George Sand

#10. We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

#11. Junie B. Jones. The B stands for Beatrice. Except, I don't like Beatrice. I just like B and that's all.

Barbara Park

#12. My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.

Leila Janah

#13. He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Umar Ibn Al-Khattab

#14. Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

Nathaniel Branden

#15. What is the point of having free speech if you have nothing to say?

John Hagee

#16. The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

#17. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

Maya Angelou