Monkishness Quotes

#1. Saying of the Prophet
Monkishness
No monkery in Islam.

Idries Shah

#2. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

J.C. Ryle

#3. The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco

#4. I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.

Padgett Powell

#5. The part you are responsible for is the part you are

Sunday Adelaja

#6. The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

Ira Glasser

#7. ...what has the weight of evidence to one person does not necessarily have the weight of evidence to another.

Mitch Glaser

#8. Writing is a very calming thing for me.

Carrie Fisher

#9. The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

Tom Petty

#10. It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

Muhammad Ali

#11. Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing ... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

William Shatner

#12. These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#13. He could have died for such a smile . . . and thought he would, if circumstances demanded.

Stephen King