Top 69 Wa'stho'anes Quotes
#1. Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
Edna Ferber
#2. Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#3. Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.
Lord Mountbatten
#4. If we want to turn Africa into a new Europe ... then let us leave the destiny of our countries to Europeans. They will know how to do it better than the most gifted among us.'25
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#5. He carried the Bible; the soldier carried the gun; the administrator and the settler carried the coin. Christianity, Commerce, Civilization: the Bible, the Coin, the Gun: Holy Trinity.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#6. He is a prophet and not a poet and therefore his Koran is to be seen as a divine law and not as a book of a human being, made for education or entertainment.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#7. He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.
Mark Twain
#8. La ilaha il-Allah, wa Muhammadu ... (There is no god but God and Muhammed [is His prophet
Saddam Hussein
#9. We should not fool ourselves. When the Quran says wa la qad karamna Bani Adam ["we have honored the Children of Adam"] so yes we should all be free but this should not mean that we must act against the dignity of human beings.
Tariq Ramadan
#10. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#11. Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you: When Rasulallah salAllahu alayhi wa sallam empowered the sahaba, did that take away from his authority or did it empower him?
Nouman Ali Khan
#12. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#13. The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#16. An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
David Pogue
#17. You're sunny. You keep showing up here." Diver
"I'm not sunny, I'm alcohol. No, no, I mean, I'm Summer," Summer says.
"Don't say that," the little boy said, suddenly frightened. "You're disturbing my wa.
Katherine Applegate
#18. Wa-wa-wa watch bikinis no top. See my sex sex sex sexy bikinis would drop. Tic-tac-toe don't play me I'll stop. Tonight I will make you mine.
Alexandra Stan
#19. In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#21. Julia taught me what it takes to find your way in the world. It's not what I thought it was. I thought it wa all about-I don't know, confidence or will or luck. Those are all some good things to have, no question. But there's something else, somethng that these things grow out of. It's joy.
Julie Powell
#22. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#23. No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.
Eoin Colfer
#24. Islamic scholars developed a doctrine known as "abrogation" (an-Nasikh wa'l Mansukh), whereby Allah issues new revelations that supersede old ones.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#25. And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time ...
Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
Scott Westerfeld
#26. I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, Oh, wow! I can't wait.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#27. Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.
L. Frank Baum
#28. In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
Tariq Ramadan
#30. Frighteningly Beautiful, Dangerously Strong, Breathtakingly Fast.
Face it Tally-wa you're special ...
Scott Westerfeld
#31. ...I touch Vel's arm to stay him. He sits down on the bed beside me, head cocked in inquiry. Thank you, I write. Vel rises and performs a lovely wa. White wave will never forsake brown bird.
Ann Aguirre
#32. Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#34. Alannah cleared her throat. "Does no one wa-want to have sex with me?" she asked, sounding tired. "I promise I'm good at it." All eyes fell on Damien. He glared at us. "Thanks very much, guys!" I grinned. "We got you.
L.A. Casey
#35. Wa, did I just say fate? I so don't believe in that. Fate is bullshit people force-feed themselves when they're too lazy to carve out a destiny of their own.
Addison Moore
#36. He wa so difficult to read, it was frustrating. His thoughts and emotions always seemed to be kept very carefully under wraps. Whereas I felt like I was an open book.
Tiffany Snow
#37. The dynamic inter-linkage of art forms in orature is thus seen as reflecting a Weltanschauung that assumes the normality of the connection between nature, nurture, supernatural, and supernurtural. I
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#38. Prescription of the correct cure is dependent on a rigorous analysis of the reality.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#39. It was a universal welcome - Make yourself at home; Mi casa es su casa; Ahlan wa-sahlan; Baruch habah
Sandy Tolan
#40. When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah Subhaanahu wa Ta'ala's favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation.
Nouman Ali Khan
#41. Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#42. This land used to yield. Rains used not to fail. What happened?' inquired Ruoro. It was Muturi who answered. 'You forget that in those days the land was not for buying. It was for use. It was also plenty, you need not have beaten one yard over and over again.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#43. If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.
Nouman Ali Khan
#44. Allaah Tabaraka wa Ta'Ala {The Absolute Divine UnNamed} DOES NOT test to "See" if you're worthy of Jannaah or Jahannam ! If only one can perceive this, one knows it is one that places oneself in either station !!
AainaA-Ridtz
#45. I was made to protect you and you were made in a wa that it would always be worth the effort.
Kristen Ashley
#46. Walking along the path that she chose, without being affected by others ... in this sense, white is her color ... in another sense, it also makes me want to put more colors on her
Usui Takumi
#48. There were only two men on the planet better educated in the various martial arts than Butler, and he was related to one of them. The other lived on an island in the South China Sea, and spent his days meditating and beating up palm trees. You had to feel sorry for the B'wa Kell.
Eoin Colfer
#50. Yahabae: WA T A R I NO
buddha but better: WATARI YES
Powerhh
#51. But most people will draw their own conclusions on learning that the dictator's official name, Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, translates as 'the cock who goes from hen to hen knowing no fatigue'.
Jonathan Margolis
#52. There is a popular saying in Japan that goes "Tada yori takai mono wa nai," meaning: "Nothing is more costly than something given free of charge." THE UNSPOKEN WAY, MICHIHIRO MATSUMOTO, 1988
Robert Greene
#54. For I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal the secret of life.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#55. Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#56. Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#58. Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#59. Khusrau darya prem ka, ulti wa ki dhaar,
Jo utra so doob gaya, jo dooba so paar.
English Translation.
Oh Khusrau, the river of love
Runs in strange directions.
One who jumps into it drowns,
And one who drowns, gets across.
Amir Khusrau
#60. She was thinking that the grass really could be greener on the other side of the fence. It depended on who wa standing in the grass. Maybe you had to go take a look
Lynne Rae Perkins
#61. I'll come to save you as much as you want. I'll make you fall for me as much as you wish.
Usui Takumi
#62. Your own actions are a better mirror of your life than the actions of all your enemies put together.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#63. The thing about Maya was it was like that extra chromosome was filled to bursting with love. So filled up, it wa constantly leaking out of her in some shouty way, and she just couldn't keep it insinde her. It hat to come out in some way, shape or form.
Mia Sheridan
#64. Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#67. You're the only person whom I want to know about me.
Hiro Fujiwara
#68. because she couldn't write the name of what she was: a wa wam owm owamn womn
Lydia Davis
#69. Chiron probably wanted me to say, Heck it wa nothing. I eat hellhounds for breakfast. But I didn't feel like lying.
Rick Riordan