Rizwan Ali Quotes

Sugar Ray Leonard was as close as anyone came after Ali to being Ali, but he wasn't Ali. ~ Dick Schaap

The man who has no imagination has no wings. ~ Muhammad Ali

MIND & GRIND
Self-belief and hard work can propel you past more talented peers ~ Kamil Ali

One of the terrifying things about my life is that it belongs to me. It has never been lived before, nor will it ever be again. Every second is a brand-new possession. ~ Ali Shaw

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Political correctness

Kamil Ali ~ Kamil Ali

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift. ~ Chris Crutcher

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase. ~ Ali Smith

ADEPT ADAPTATION
Potholes on the road of life sharpen our maneuverability skills
Kamil Ali ~ Kamil Ali

I always joke to my dad and thank him for giving me this little boy body, when I was 6 or 7, my gymnastics coach looked at my quads and told the other coach to come over and see my quads. They were big then and still are. But I've kind of embraced it through the years. ~ Ali Krieger

Yeah, but the thing I particularly like about the word but, now that I think about it, is that it always takes you off to the side, and where it takes you is always interesting. ~ Ali Smith

The life of a non-Muslim to Muslim is worth as much as the life of a chicken is worth to you and me. We don't go around killing every chicken we see. In fact we keep them and feed them as long as they are useful to us. But we don't lose sleep when we have to slaughter them. So it is not that Muslims will necessarily go around massacring every non-Muslim. As long as these non-Muslims are useful to them, they are granted protection. ~ Ali Sina

What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening?
Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying.
I imagine that whatever it is I've forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird.
What kind of bird? Elisabeth said.
A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You'll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it to tight, and I let it sleep. And that's that. ~ Ali Smith

Ali kisses the side of my head. "Yes, there are people who care about you, Liam." I hear the smile in his voice ~ A. Zukowski

Finally she lets herself think about how it feels:
to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe
to speed so fast and be so completely out of control
to know the meaning of helplessness
to spin across a shining space knowing any moment you might end up hurt, but likewise, all the same, like plus wise you just might not. ~ Ali Smith

So we're still ... friends?" Aubrey asked.
"We weren't ever really friends," Ali admitted. "I'm too jealous of your hair. ~ Jill Shalvis

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When someone isn't smart enough to express their frustration, they use dirty words. Those are words that describe a lack of intelligence. Smart people don't use those kind of dirty words, because they find it an insult to their intelligence. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

People wealth consists upon their freedom, individual resources and good social life. ~ Zaman Ali

We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen us truly. In the end, not much else matters.

It is the only responsibility memory has. But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quote regardless. ~ Ali Smith

For those of you that use YOLO to justify sin: YOLO, you only live once, but then you burn in hell forever. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

If every single Jew born anywhere in the world has the right to become an Israeli citizen, then all the Palestinians who were chucked out of Palestine by the Zionist Government should have the same right, very simple. ~ Tariq Ali

Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace. ~ Wasif Ali Wasif

The Prophet introduced a system of prayer in that it was interwoven into man's daily work: a prayer in the morning when he arose from his bed; a prayer at lunch time, as an indication that if his body needed a diet, so did his spirit; a prayer in the afternoon when he retired from his daily work; a prayer at sunset and a prayer when going to bed. ~ Muhammad Ali

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have. ~ Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind. ~ Muhammad Ali

The Islamic world can be viewed as an onion-layered multiple dictatorship: the dictatorship of political dynasties like the Mubarak, Gaddafi, Hussein, Ben Ali, and Assad families forms its first layer; the dictatorship of the military, the next; after that, that the dictatorship of religion, which determines how children are raised and educated; and finally, the dictatorship of society, which impacts life within families through archaic gender roles. ~ Hamed Abdel-Samad

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

Of course, almost ali people, guided by the traditional manner of dealing with ethical precepts, peremptorily repudiate such an explanation of the issue. Social institutions, they assert, must be just. It is base to judge them merely according to their fitness to attain definite ends, however desirable these ends may be from any other point of view. What matters first is justice. The extreme formulation of this idea is to be found in the famous phrase: fiai fustitia, pereat mundus. Let justice be done, even if it destroys the world. Most supporters of the postulate of justice will reject this maxim as extravagant, absurd, and paradoxical. But it is not more absurd, merely more shocking, than any other reference to an arbitrary notion of absolute justice. It clearly shows the fallacies of the methods applied in the discipline of intuitive ethics. ~ Ludwig Von Mises

The tongue is like a lion, if you let it loose, it will wound someone. ~ Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib R.A

Such is the tragedy of girls and women who by the strictures of their upbringing and culture cannot own up to their body's desires, even to themselves. ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You couldn't control everything, because it wasn't all meant to be perfect. Sometimes things needed to be messy. ~ Ali Novak