Mind Blowing Quotes - Page 2

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.