#shin

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#difficult #equilibrium #establishing #identity #intellectuals

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas. ↗

— Peter Sotos

#always #any #bunch #creation #generally

To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ↗

— Robert Southey

#doing #first #first step #impossible #mind

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#business #comes #dollars #done #down

It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#political #public #public interest #rarity #risk

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#because #catch #committed #component #did

I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism. ↗

— Pete Stark

#against #area #baghdad #bay #bay area

Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs. ↗

— Peter Steele

#crummy #i #instead #just #really

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#also #being #being alone #big #corn