"Perpetually is the servant either the recipient of a blessing from Allaah, in which case he is need of gratitude; or he is the perpetrator of sin, in which case he is in need of repentance; he is always moving from one blessing to another and is always is in need of repentance."

-- Ibn Taymiyyah

#Gratitude Quotes #Moving Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.”
“Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.”

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition
“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.”

Source : Humphrey Carpenter (1977). “Tolkien: A Biography”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin
“What has reasoning to do with painting?”
“It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.”
“I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.”
“I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form of religion or imagination.”
“Even in Madison’s day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried to gerrymander Madison himself out of the First Congress. The term was coined during Madison’s Presidency, to mock Elbridge Gerry, the governor of Massachusetts, who in 1811 approved an election district that was said to look like a salamander.”

Source : "Drawing the Line". www.newyorker.com. March 6, 2006.

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