Sayyid Quotes

#1. In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Willa Cather

#2. Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.

Sayyid Qutb

#3. In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

Lord Byron

#4. Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

John M. Perkins

#5. All people go to Allah after their death, but the happy person is the one who goes to Allah while still alive.

Sayyid Qutb

#6. We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

Emily Dickinson

#7. My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#8. Why bother? Maybe the world's not worth saving. She knew he meant it, too. Those lifeless eyes spoke volumes.

Sarah J. Maas

#9. You make a new life by making new choices.

Sean Stephenson

#10. Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

Sayyid Qutb

#11. There is one thing you must always remember about yourself; always be yourself, with courage and humility, no matter what!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#12. Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

Mario Andretti

#13. Absolute justice demands that mens incomes and rewards should ... vary, and that some have more than others-so long as human justice is upheld by the provision of equal opportunity for all.

Sayyid Qutb

#14. Islam cannot accept or agree to a situation which is half-Islam and half-Jahiliyya [separated from God].

Sayyid Qutb

#15. Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Sayyid Qutb

#16. I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

#17. A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

Sayyid Qutb

#18. There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.

Sherwood Anderson

#19. Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.

Sayyid Qutb

#20. It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.

L. Todd Rose