Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

Ruhollah Khomeini

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.

Khaled Hosseini

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Pope Paul VI

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Nelson DeMille

Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Muhammad

Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

Muhammad

The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.

Viola Spolin

Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger

William Shatner

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

Sarah Brightman

I actually want to go up into space.

Emile M. Cioran

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

Louise Penny

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

E. O. Wilson

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

Anita Ekberg

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.