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Fatema Mernissi Quotes

Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.

Fatema Mernissi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: moroccan
Birth: September 27, 1940 - November 30, 2015

Topics

Painting Believe Rich Tradition Only

Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.

John Cameron

Work Time Medical Research Get

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

John Newton

Today Day Yesterday Burden Will

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

John Jay Chapman

Deep Long Three Half Hours Four

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

Mary Lou Retton

Good Childhood People Think You Say

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

Martin Parr

Ending Trouble Hollywood Always

Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.

Janine di Giovanni

City Cool World Paris London Berlin

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Desmond Morris

City Jungle Zoo Human Concrete

I was the happiest kid ever, but I did choose to live around adults and today, now that I have a kid, I don't know if I would let him do it.

Diego Luna

Live Today Choose Know Now Kid

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

David Suzuki

Nature Opportunity Respect Control

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

Annie Dillard

Past You Wood Nothing Aim Will

At the time of the formation of the euro, I would say most American economists said that's not a good idea; that's not a currency area that makes sense. And the answer from Europe was, 'How is Missouri and Mississippi a currency area?' But the flaw in that was not recognizing the importance of mobility.

Austan Goolsbee

Good Time American Said Say Europe

In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.

Phyllida Lloyd

Time Decision Management Better You