quotes about Disobeying

“I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me of your sex instead of poor Eve's. Trust me, my beloved friend, the mind has no sex but what habit and education give it, and I who was thrown in infancy upon the world like a wreck upon the waters have learned, as well to struggle with the elements as any male child of Adam.”

“My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.”

Source : "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.”

“Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.”

“Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.”

“Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.”

“Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Mar 12, 2013

“One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.”

“When the fad changed from folk to rock, they didn't take along any good writers.”