"I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Thinking Quotes #Islam Quotes #Needs Quotes

“A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'”

Source : "Life of the Party" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
“Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.”

Source : Wes Nisker (2012). “The Essential Crazy Wisdom”, p.111, Ten Speed Press
“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
“Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.”
“The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.
“There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.”
“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.”
“There are some men who possess a quality which goes way beyond romantic or even sexual appeal, a quality which literally enslaves. It has very little to do with looks and nothing at all to do with youth, because there are some quite mature and unathletic specimens who have it. It's an expression in the eyes, an aura of being in control, and responsible, or something easy and powerful in the stance, or who knows.”

Source : Lucille Kallen (1981). “Introducing C.B. Greenfield”

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