Michel Aflaq Quotes

#1. In trying to imagine this world, I kept coming back to Michel Aflaq. He's a Christian Arab, a Syrian, who ends up finding his home in Iraq and is buried there - I was stunned to see his tomb is right smack down in the Green Zone.

Elliott Colla

#2. A day will come when the nationalists will find themselves the only defenders of Islam. They will have to give a special meaning to it if they want the Arab nation to have a good reason for survival.

Michel Aflaq

#3. If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

Alan Perlis

#4. Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.

Michel Aflaq

#5. I'm pretty sure 'ferral cats' is code for 'vampire cougars.

Jenny Lawson

#6. Come, Lord Jesus, put an end to this state of sin, sorrow, and temptation;

Matthew Henry

#7. Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk

Daft Punk

#8. I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

Rashida Jones

#9. Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

#10. Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.

Kevin Jorgeson

#11. If there's something you need to get done, don't make it a drama. It's much more enjoyable without it.

Jon Mead

#12. I'd never get over you regardless of what happened to you. You're not something I want to get over no matter where I am in my life.

Holly Hood

#13. All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

Michel Aflaq

#15. And then my editor really likes that because he's left alone to do what ... to create those things instead of me breathing over his shoulder and I like it because I don't have to sit in the editing room all day. I get to watch just dailies.

Nicholas Stoller

#16. Living Empty means we release the things that are no longer in alignment with who we are becoming. The release itself tells us who that is. The emptiness shows us the way.

Christine Kane

#17. No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

Saint Augustine

#18. When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

Lance Henriksen

#19. Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

Flannery O'Connor