#slam

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1. ↗

— Pete Sampras

#grand #grand slams #granted #i #i do

Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#anything #aside #bad #europe #islamists

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#faces #islam #jews #less #shown

Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#cocktail #fundamentalism #ideology #islamic #lethal

I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy being settled and working my butt off and trying to win grand slams. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#be happy #being #glamour #grand #grand slams

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

#deal #door #future #gag #going

Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #each #fire #lights #optimism

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#before #come #conduct #contact #did

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #death #indeed #islamic #law

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#anyone #been #black-and-white #convert #days