"A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah"

-- Ibn Taymiyyah

#Blessing Quotes #Remembrance Quotes #Forget Quotes

“Humor [in a scene] is not jokes. It is that attitude toward being alive without which you would long ago have jumped off the 59th Street Bridge.”
“I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.”
“I'm proud to be a Democrat.”
“When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive.”
“It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.”
“It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?”

Source : "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.
“The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”
“Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.”

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