"You're a cynic," Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. "No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist."

-- David Eddings

#Majesty Quotes #Realist Quotes #Cynic Quotes

“I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.”
“One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.”
“I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.”
“For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other.”
“Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.”
“There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.”
“I'm scared of the interviews...I'm scared of having to get up onstage again. I'm scared of the critique. I'm scared right now of doing this again. But that's why I have to do it, I think.”
“The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1961). “The Principles of State and Government in Islam”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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