Mushfique Wadud Quotes

#1. For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else.

C.S. Lewis

#2. Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. Only a war that serves no conceivable national interest gets the New York Time's endorsement. Liberals warm to the idea of American mothers weeping for their sons, but only if their deaths will not make America any safer.

Ann Coulter

#5. Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like other knives,
That cost me eighteen pence.
I need but stick it in my heart
And down will come the sky,
And earth's foundations will depart
And all you folk will die.

A.E. Housman

#6. The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.

Julian Fellowes

#7. Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them.

Harper Lee

#8. Art is head space that is very exclusive: it shuts people out; other people cease to exist.

Michel Faber

#9. Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#10. The key, Gansey found, was that you had to believe that they existed; you had to realized they were part of something bigger. Some secrets only gave themselves up to those who'd proven themselves worthy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Agatha let out a rush of air and gripped her old history textbook to her chest. Leave it to a librarian to find the book she needed, she thought, silently thanking the tortoise.

Soman Chainani

#12. I've never seen 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#13. For the very young to rail against their own bitter fate, they must draw upon all their strength and spirit. That is why they are so steadfast.

Miyuki Miyabe

#14. My philosophy is food and cooking should be fun but, never a chore!

Adam Pittaway-Hay