#tie

The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#patience #qur-an #islam

In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#coming #eli #gunn #jones #katie

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#thirties #time #economy

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#atrocities #casualties #kids #media #war

Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#basically #corporations #countries #court #everything

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. ↗

— Rachel Blanchard

#activities #body #enjoy #fit #good

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#committees #found #i #parks #searched

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#become #creativity #essence #many #performance

I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities. ↗

— William Labov

#america #both #changes #communities #completing