Naqeera Quotes

#1. 124. And whoever does righteous good deeds, male or female, and is a true believer in the Oneness of Allaah (Muslim), such will enter Paradise and not the least injustice, even to the size of a Naqeera (speck on the back of a date-stone), will be done to them.

Anonymous

#2. I read nonfiction.
She reared back as if offended.

Anne Osterlund

#3. Fear can cause blindness ... we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind

Jose Saramago

#4. Let the mouth also fast from disgraceful speeches and railings. For what does it profit if we abstain from fish and fowl and yet bite and devour our brothers and sisters? The evil speaker eats the flesh of his brother and bites the body of his neighbor.

John Chrysostom

#5. Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

David Gemmell

#6. I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

Dan Jenkins

#7. Zen perceives and feels, and does not abstract and meditate. Zen penetrates and is finally lost in the immersion. Meditation, on the other hand, is outspokenly dualistic and consequently inevitably superficial.

D.T. Suzuki

#8. Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

Samuel Johnson

#9. The Courts of Justice had once ruled that a man carrying bagpipes was a man carrying a weapon - so inspiring was the music of the pipers to the clans in battle.

John McPhee

#10. What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

Mark Rowlands