Rushdie Fatwa Quotes

#1. Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

An Na

#2. An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

John Connally

#4. Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And as long as what you're saying is what you truly, honestly believe to be the case, then whatever the consequences, that's fine. That's an honorable position.

Salman Rushdie

#5. We sweat for our pretensions. It

David Sedaris

#6. Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

Vaclav Havel

#7. She carries chaos like an overcoat.

Ann Aguirre

#8. My sincerest gratitude to every ass hole, horrible boss, and worthless piece of shit I've ever met for giving me new and endless material to work with and a way to earn a living exposing you.

Crystal Woods

#9. The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#10. The Internet is like closing time at a blue-collar bar in Boston. Everyone's drunk and ugly and they're going to pass out in a few minutes.

Leon Wieseltier

#11. All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.

Salman Rushdie

#12. Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea.

Ayn Rand

#13. Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

Nora Roberts

#14. Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it ... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.

Salman Rushdie

#15. The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Robert Jeffress