#sm

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources. ↗

— Dan Rather

#enjoy #following #i #important #journalism

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah. ↗

— Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi

#fatalism #islam #quran #stoicism #worship

But, when I had this feeling and started painting sacred art, as I had this feeling to do, then it come to me: my problem is I'll get a lot of criticism and another problem is my work's not good enough to sell. ↗

— Howard Finster

#art #come #criticism #enough #feeling

To be a statesman, you must first get elected. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#first #get #must #statesman #you

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#drink #easy #every #games #hell

Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

#conflict #difference #fragments #inequality #never

If men have a smell it's usually an accident. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#men #smell #usually

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#alone #also #anticipate #avoids #businessman

I don't drink any coffee or take any drugs and I don't smoke cigarettes and I don't eat sugar and I don't take any medicine at all. I eat a lot of fish, vegetables, and I stay away from starches. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#away #cigarettes #coffee #drink #eat

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#covered #distance #human #human voice #never