Omid Safi famous quotes

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  • Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

  • But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts

  • I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  • The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

  • Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

  • When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.

  • One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?

  • Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is

  • If ever there was one player, anywhere in the world, that was made for Manchester United, it was Cantona. He swaggered in, stuck his chest out, raised his head and surveyed everything as though he was asking: 'I'm Cantona. How big are you? Are you big enough for me?'

  • I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.