Sufyan Al Thawri Quotes

#1. If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#2. Petty minds foster petty hearts, and have the funny habit of shooting themselves in the foot.

Adriano Bulla

#3. By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

John Updike

#4. Do not become angry and furious ...
for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#5. They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

Alice Hoffman

#6. If you know yourself, then you'll not be harmed by what is said about you.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#7. It is idle to adjudicate upon the right and wrong of incidents that have already happened. It is useful to understand them and, if possible, to learn a lesson from them for the future. It

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. We met a people who loved it when it was said to them "Fear Allah the most high!". Today you find people become annoyed at this.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#9. None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#10. Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan's disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam's lapse was passion.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#11. Knowledge for us means knowledge of the allowance/dispensation (rukhsa).
As for strictness, anyone can show strictness.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#12. If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#13. The blushing cheek speaks modest mind,The lips befitting words most kind,The eye does tempt to love's desire,And seems to, say 'tis Cupid's fire.

James Harrington

#14. There's no one in the house, obviously. It's probably good for you to go there anyway to make sure everything's all right." As if there would be a break-in in Beresford, New Hampshire. My mother presses the key into my palm. "Just sleep on it," she says. I know I should refuse, make a clean break.

Jodi Picoult

#15. There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that.

Jules Feiffer

#16. Acquaint yourself with fewer people, and as a result, you will backbite less frequently.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#17. Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.

Sufyan Al-Thawri

#18. If you read stories, you will learn the valuable lessons of life situations, survival and build strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I would almost rather be in debt constantly than work with horrible people that I hate.

Martha Plimpton