"Some people just think utopians are idiots who are imagining rivers of candy and not really engaging with the world's ills, and sometimes that's surely the case, but I think that imagining the perfected society is a way of expressing your disgust with the current state of affairs."

-- Christine Jennings

#Thinking Quotes #Rivers Quotes #People Quotes

“The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from May 14, 2017
“To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.”
“A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.”
“If one of our customers comes into the store without a smile, I'll give them one of mine.”
“Most people are sick. But only a few know that this is something they can be proud of. These are the psychoanalysts.”
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press
“Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite poet. People like poets to possess the same qualities they do.”
“In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.”

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