Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Harold Hamm

Climate change isn't out biggest problem. It's Islamic terrorism.

Jerry Falwell

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Glenn Beck

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

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.

David Perry

It is Islam versus the rest of the world,

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.

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

We can each immediately liberate ourselves as victims in the world, through solidifying an intent to act.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Charles Colson

The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

Jan Garbarek

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Jared Diamond

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brendan Fehr

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Tori Kelly

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.