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  • Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor. -- Robert Jordan
  • I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino. -- Javier Bardem
  • To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate. -Imam Al -- Al-Ghazali
  • My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy . -- Barack Obama
  • Als u de regelgeving goed toepast, komt u in ieder geval niet voor onverwachte dingen te staan. -- Hedwyg Van Groenendaal
  • Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. -- Veronica Roth
  • What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. -- Thomas Friedman
  • Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK. -- Steve Gleason
  • Als u een schoen naar iemands hoofd gooit, verspreid u uw eigen stank." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You -- Angelica Hopes
  • Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly. -- Steve Gleason
  • To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now. -- Andrew Sullivan
  • Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that. -- Barack Obama
  • I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases. -- Gina Gershon
  • While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack. -- Bart Gordon
  • His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. -- Idi Amin
  • Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial. -- Edward Abbey
  • Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino...Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup. -- Denis Leary
  • Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who. -- Richard Russo
  • We gaan er altijd van uit dat lezen gemakkelijk is omdat we de techniek die we zo lang geleden hebben geleerd, vergeten zijn en het nu voortdurend zonder nadenken doen. Als een boek dus moeilijk lijkt, moet dat eerder de schuld van het boek zijn dan van de lezer. -- Michael Foley
  • As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. -- Jim Gaffigan
  • Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. -- Steve Gleason
  • All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations, -- Osama bin Laden
  • What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira! -- Ibn Taymiyyah
  • Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. -- Barack Obama
  • Al-Awlaki was born here, he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. No one knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys, I think it's sad. -- Ron Paul
  • The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • Man muss wohl als Frau auch immer ein bisschen Nazi sein. -- HallgrĂ­mur Helgason
  • Von allen Abenteuern ist Selbstmord das literarischste, mehr noch als Mord. -- J. M. Coetzee
  • Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Vind je het goed als ik jou gebruik om mijn leven aan diggelen te gooien? -- Tim KrabbĂ©
  • Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen. -- Bertolt Brecht
  • There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.] --
  • There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well. -- Stephen Hawking
  • The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years. -- Stephen Hawking
  • Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means. -- Carl von Clausewitz
  • Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made. -- Immanuel Kant
  • ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch. -- Steve Gleason
  • Vlinders zijn de meest vergankelijke, gracieuze schepsels ter wereld. Ze worden uit het niets geboren, verlangen stilletjes naar iets heel kleins en beperkts, om uiteindelijk weer als in het niets te verdwijnen. -- Haruki Murakami
  • A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me. -- Steve Gleason
  • Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.] -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Menschen konnten nichts anderes sein als Menschen. Sie zogen sich Roben an oder Handschellen und taten, was von ihnen erwartet wurde. In diesem Haus bestand ihre Aufgabe darin, den Phantomschmerz einer amputierten Weltordnung zu erzeugen. -- Juli Zeh
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