"Who is this before whose presence idols tumble to the sod? While he cries out â€” Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!"

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Source : "El Amin, The Faithful", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 625-29, 1922.

William Ross Wallace

#Idols Quotes #Cry Quotes #There Is No God Quotes

“After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.”
“People don't want to pay for pitches. They want to see it. If you hear one more time, "Well, that's execution-dependent." Everything's execution-dependent! If there's something that's going to be a little bit more interesting than The Untitled Slinky Movie, then I think that writers that want to do interesting work and at the same time commercial work need to put it down on paper. So agents and producers that writers are working with are encouraging them to get it on paper because the studios like to see what they're buying rather than just imagine what it could be.”
“Much in sorrow, oft in woe, Onward, Christians, onward go.”

Source : Henry Kirke White, Robert Southey (1823). “The remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's college, Cambridge: with an account of his life”, p.148
“If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!”
“Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.”
“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.”

Source : Peter Straub (2011). “The Throat: Blue Rose Trilogy (3)”, p.75, Anchor
“Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.”
“There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary.”

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