"I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?""

-- Muhammad Ali

#Islamic Quotes #Heart Quotes #Unbearable Quotes

“Modern Democrats aren't the first political party to abuse power - far from it. Obama isn'Â€Â™t the first president to abuse executive power - not by a longshot. But he has to be the first president in American history to overtly and consistently argue that he's empowered to legislate if Congress doesn'Â€Â™t pass the laws he favors. It's an argument that's been mainstreamed by partisans and cheered on by those in media desperate to find a morsel of triumph in this presidency.”
“Hadrian shook his head and sighed. â€œWhy do you have to make everything so difficult? Theyâ€™re probably not bad peopleâ€”just poor. You know, taking what they need to buy a loaf of bread to feed their family. Can you begrudge them that? Winter is coming and times are hard.â€ He nodded his head in the direction of the thieves. â€œRight?â€ â€œI ainâ€™t got no family,â€ flat-nose replied. â€œI spend most of my coin on drink.â€ â€œYouâ€™re not helping,â€ Hadrian said.”
“We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.”
“Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.703, Delphi Classics
“I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.”
“And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.”
“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
“The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

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