"If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them"

-- Nouman Ali Khan

#Grateful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Parent Quotes

“And where there's pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.”
“To rule without being feltâ€¦is the great mystery of policy.”
“9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days later. I'm one of those people who doesn't think the world has changed any at all since 9/11. It just seemed to be almost inevitable, something like that. That's one of the reasons why the backstory of Fay Grim goes all the way back into the '80s. I was trying to sketch out the continuity of all this hanky-panky between the security agencies of the world.”
“I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.”
“It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow. I think underestimated how much I was going to miss it.”
“I've always been honest with all my kids. So I - if they did well, they did well. And if they didn't, actually, I asked, did you try your best? And if they tried their best, then, you know, I back out because I expect them to be honest with me or with themselves. And I can't make you go out there and work out hard.”
“People forget what they want to forget.”
“Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of the people who work within or are served by them.”

Source : George Ritzer (1994). “Sociological Beginnings: On the Origins of Key Ideas in Sociology”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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