Q Quotes
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“Qabalah is a portrait of what it means to be human, what it means to be divine and exist. That is what the theory of Qabalah is meant to accomplish. And tarot is that same exact portrait, done as a deck of cards. It is a portrait of the workings of the invisible universe.”
“Qabalists assert that Reason is a weapon inadequate to the Search for Reality since its nature is essentially self-contradictory. Hume and Kant both saw this; but the one became a sceptic in the widest sense of the term, and with the other, the conclusion hid itself behind a verbose transcendentalism.”
Source: A Garden of Pomegranates: Skrying on the Tree of Life
“Qacha just nodded. She's a good one, that Qacha. She seems to know when to keep talking and when to let the words drizzle into silence.”
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.”
“Qadir sighed in her ear. "Why do humans thank the gods for things they do not do?"
"Because they are fools that believe in fate," Loulie said bitterly.”
Source: The Stardust Thief
“Qandeel’s neighbour in Shah Sadar Din recalls a night, perhaps during that visit, when Qandeel appeared at his house, sweating, panting. Her brother Arif, a pisto gripped tightly in his hand, was threatening to kill her. ‘I had no idea what had happened,’ he recalls. ‘Qandeel had come there with a driver and she took off. After she left the village, her parents had told us all she was working at some mill.’ She did not want to come back to Shah Sadar Din after that quarrel with her brother. She found this house in Multan and told her parents that she would meet them here once a year.”
Source: The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch
“Qarjet e të rriturve ishin si një katastrofë mistike, diçka si lotët që derdh Zoti për ligësinë e njerëzve.”
Source: The age of reason
“Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.”
“Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.”
“Qatar & The West (The Sonnet)
All of a sudden the entire west is peeved at Qatar,
Because only the west has exclusive rights to exposure.
All of a sudden we care about the migrant workers,
The Afghans, Palestinians and Kashmiris no longer matter.
Human rights issue here is, we don't care about human rights,
We only care about filling the air with hypocrisy and mania.
Our poster boy just dumped half his new workforce as garbage,
We buy Oscar, ditch Batgirl, and we diss Qatar for buying FIFA!
We are just peeved that the Arabs are showing off for a change,
Sure it's unacceptable, since showing off is a western tradition.
Yes, it's true that the Middle East reeks with human rights issues,
But it is also teeming with passion beyond western comprehension.
If you really care about human rights stick to a cause for more than a fortnight.
Otherwise keep your trap shut, lest you open and be proved a privileged white.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Qatil hun main khud jazbaat ka meray”
Qatil hun main khud jazbaat ka meray,
Har din karta hun qatl apni baat ka meray.
Jo dil ke kone mein chhupa dukh tha,
Aaj ban gaya hai shor hayaat ka meray.
Meri har khushi ko main khud mitata raha,
Qareeb na aaya koi bhi saath ka meray.
Mohabbat ka diya khud hi bujhaya maine,
Kya gila karun ab kisi firaaq ka meray?
Har dafa main khud hi chor ban jata hun,
Shikayat kaisi ho kisi ilzaam ka meray?
Qatil hun main khud jazbaat ka meray,
Har din karta hun qatl apni baat ka meray.”
“Qatâdah said: “Allâh created angels with reason and no desires, animals with desires and no reason, and man with both reason and desires.” So if a man’s reason is stronger than his desire he is like an angel, and if his desires are stronger than his reason, then he is like an animal.”
Source: Patience and Gratitude
“QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.”
“QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.”
“QED [quantum electrodynamics] reduces ... "all of chemistry and most of physics," to one basic interaction, the fundamental coupling of a photon to electric charge. The strength of this coupling remains, however, as a pure number, the so-called fine-structure constant, which is a parameter of QED that QED itself is powerless to predict.”
Source: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
“Qfon is the magic of how observation affects the environment.”
Source: Adventures With A.I.: Age of Discovery
“Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything — most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.”
Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Qhuinn looked at each of the hoods again. How ironic, he thought. Nearly two years ago, an Honor Guard of black robes had been sent to him to make sure he knew his family didn't want him. And now, here these males were, come to draw him into a different kind of fold-- that was every bit as strong as that of blood.”
Source: Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.”
Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Qhuinn stopped breathing, focusing everything he had on the male who had been his best friend and his never-been lover… and the ever-after that was never going to happen.
Even after all the things that had gone on between them, and all the fuckups on his end, which were legendary, Blay still had his back.
“I love you,” Qhuinn blurted into the silence.”
Source: Lover Reborn
“Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB’s skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts’ rugs. And the deadweight of the body. Seemed only hospitable.”
Source: Lover at Last: Number 11 in series
“Qhuinn wanted to scream... Yes he has!!!”
“Qhuinn would reach out and touch the bandage … and then he would let his fingers wander off the gauze and the surgical tape onto the warm, smooth skin of Blay’s stomach. Blay would be shocked, but in this fantasy, he wouldn’t push the hand away.… He would take it lower, down past the injury, down onto his hips and his—
“Fuck!”
Source: Lover Unleashed
“Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?”
Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Qhuinn: "What is wrong with you, that you care so much about me?" Blay: "What is wrong with you, that you can't see why I would?”
“Qi, Atman, Sentience, Corazon,
All are but varied names of humanity.
Put superstitions aside and you'll find,
Just plain goodness is the supreme epitome.”
Source: Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home
“Qi cannot flow through a tense, knotted muscle or a locked joint.”
Source: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing
“Qi dao quan ji "prayer-boxing" tells us, like striking, not to pray at an object or about an object that only results in superficial glancing blows, but to 'pray through an object, not at one.' Mean business; pray hard to hit your target. Snap that prayer, don’t push!
--boxing metaphor, Martial Arts on Noah's Ark”
“Qi gong therapy, as well as other branches of Chinese medicine, can be reduced to two simple principles: the cleansing of meridians to achieve harmonious energy flow, and the restoration of yin-yang balance.”
“Qi is the Chinese word for "life energy". According to Chinese medicine, qi is the animating power that flows through all living things. A living being is filled with it. A dead person has no more qi. A healthy individual has more qi than one who is ill. However health is more than an abundance of qi. Health implies that the qi in our bodies is clear, rather than polluted and turbid, and flowing smoothly, liek a stream, not blocked or stagnant.”
Source: The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing
“Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.”
“Qiao Guanhua and I drafted the last remaining section of the Shanghai Communiqué ...
The U.S. side declared: The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States government does not challenge that position. It reaffirms its interest in a peaceful settlement of the Taiwan question by the Chinese themselves. With this prospect in mind, it affirms the ultimate objective of the withdrawal of all U.S. forces and military installations from Taiwan. In the meantime, it will progressively reduce its forces and military installations on Taiwan as the tension in the area diminishes.”
Source: On China
“Qigong is a jewel that has many facets.”
“Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.”
“Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software.”
“qof kuu samray baa wanaagaaga istaahila.”
“Qu’as-tu vu? lui demande-t-il. - Rien. Ton cœur. - Ce n’est rien? dit-il, faussement outré. Rien? Comment peux-tu dire une chose pareille?” Elle lui sourit, fait semblant de sourire, mais il lui prend alors la main et la pose sur sa poitrine. “Et ce n’est pas mon cœur que tu as vu, lui dit-il. Mais le tien.”
Source: Hamnet
“Qu'attendent les femmes pour se lever et crier "Assez !" Trop d'entre elles consentent à leur oppression. Cela paraît insensé, bien sûr, mais religion et culture se liguent depuis des siècles pour fonder ce consentement mû en complicité. Victimes d'enfermement, elles se laissent leurrer par les fleurs de leur maître, ses hymnes à la fée du logis, ses éloges à la déesse de leur cœur. [...] Le trône est une prison, elles le découvrent très vite mais s'y résignent, cherchant désespérément à y trouver quelque avantage pour éviter la blessure, sauver l'honneur, sauver leur peau, quitte à entretenir et reproduire le système. Complices, donc. Et c'est terrible. Le sort des femmes n'échappe pas à la règle qui perpétue les grandes oppressions de l'Histoire : sans le consentement de l'opprimé -individu, peuple, ou moitié de l'humanité-, ces oppressions ne pourraient durer.”
Source: Ne vous résignez jamais
“Qu'est-ce donc que le fond du cœur ? Un entrepôt de tout ce que nous avons de mauvais.”
“Qu'est-ce qu'il m'offre, mon pays ? Un passé tragique, un présent chaotique et un avenir douteux. Merci. J'ai compris, je n'attends rien de lui, je ne lui dois rien. En revanche, je dois aux miens.”
Source: Ulysses from Baghdad
“Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?”
Source: The Inheritance of Loss
“Qu'est-ce qu'un rire après tout? Une explosion d'enfance partagée.”
Source: The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle
“Qu'est-ce qu'une crucifixion unique, auprès de celle, quotidienne, qu'endure l'insomniaque?”
Source: Del inconveniente de haber nacido
“Qu'est-ce qu'une âme perdue ? C'en est une qui tâtonne dans la nuit, sur les routes du souvenir.”
Source: L'Amour après
“Qu'est-ce que c'est, le Graal? Vous savez pas vraiment! Et moi non plus! Et j'en ai rien à cirer! Regardez-nous: y'en a pas deux qui ont le même âge, pas deux qui viennent du même endroit! Des seigneurs, des chevaliers errants, des riches, des pauvres! Mais, à la table ronde, pour la première fois dans toute l'histoire du peuple breton, nous cherchons tous la même chose: le Graal! C'est le Graal qui fait de vous des chevaliers, des hommes civilisés, qui nous différencie des tribus barbares. Le Graal, c'est notre union. Le Graal c'est notre grandeur.”
Source: Kaamelott, livre 1, deuxième partie : Episodes 51 à 100
“Qu'est-ce-que faire l'amour ? c'est languir après le tout proche, comme si une fois levés tout les obstacles, , dans le contact des peaux, et l'entralacement des epidermes, l'Autre refusait encore de se laisser prendre.”
Source: La Sagesse de l'amour
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“Qu'est-ce que le roman, en effet, sinon cet univers où l'action trouve sa forme, où les mots de la fin sont prononcés, les êtres livrés aux êtres, où toute vie prend le visage du destin. Le monde romanesque n'est que la correction de ce monde-ci, suivant le désir profond de l'homme. Car il s'agit bien du même monde. La souffrance est la même, le mensonge et l'amour. Les héros ont notre langage, nos faiblesses, nos forces. Leur univers n'est ni plus beau ni plus édifiant que le nôtre. Mais eux, du moins, courent jusqu'au bout de leur destin, et il n'est même jamais de si bouleversants héros que ceux qui vont jusqu'à l'extrémité de leur passion.[...] Voici donc un monde imaginaire, mais créé par la correction de celui-ci, un monde où la douleur peut, si elle le veut, durer jusqu'à la mort, où les passions ne sont jamais distraites, où les êtres sont livrés à l'idée fixe et toujours présents les uns aux autres. L'homme s'y donne enfin à lui-même la forme et la limite apaisante qu'il poursuit en vain dans sa condition. Le roman fabrique du destin sur mesure. C'est ainsi qu'il concurrence la création et qu'il triomphe, provisoirement, de la mort.”
Source: The Rebel
“Qu'il est bon pourtant de faire partie de la meute ! Faire partie de ceux qui portent aux nues, ou vouent aux gémonies. Comment ne pas voir dans le café des Poètes de Thrace ma ville de Saint-Gilles ? Thrace ne ressemble en rien aux communes réunionnaises faites de tôle et de flamboyants, au carrefour des virages menant aux cirques, ou des sentiers vers la plage. Mon Thrace à moi, ou ma Thrace, c'est bine l'île de La Réunion, et Saint-Gilles en est le café des Poètes. Saint-Gilles, c'est l'Avant-Garde de Cocteau, sa jeunesse dorée, celle qu'on exhibe volontiers. Corps offerts sur la plage comme en terrasse. La profondeur de l'invisible, nous la laissons à l'océan. On reconnaît le jeune Saint-Gillois à ses épaules carrées de surfeur, mèches blondes de préférence, la Saint-Gilloise à ses longues jambes bronzées, sa chevelure brune.”
Source: L'Admission
“Qu’il prouve que la démocratie est l’obligation de remplir, par ceux qui ont trop, tout ce qui manque à ceux qui n’ont point assez !”
Source: Le Manifeste des Plébéiens