#wors

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

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#downturn #i #managed #packard #technology

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. ↗

— Curt Flood

#black #gone #hadn #i #lying

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#best #heaven #hell #let us #out

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego. ↗

— William Kennedy

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#haircuts #life #mistakes #my life #some

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off. ↗

— Chris Patten

#fascism #get #green #growth #less

There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact. ↗

— Robert Plant

#fact #jaded #nothing #old #than

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#even #even worse #feel #fight #giving

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american #american people #choice #even #even worse