“Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success.” FirstsMaySoulMomentsLeftWishBehindsVisionForeverPursuitVanishing Book:Felix Holt: The Radical Source: Felix Holt: The Radical
“Anti-Islamist Muslims - who wish to live modern lives, unencumbered by burqas, fatwas and violent visions of jihad - are on the defensive and atomized. However eloquent, their individual voices cannot compete with the roar of militant Islam's determination, money (much of it from overseas) and violence. As a result, militant Islam, with its West-phobia and goal of world hegemony, dominates Islam in the West and appears to many to be the only kind of Islam.” WorldKindIndividualWishGoalVoiceResultsVisionViolenceModernDeterminationWestIslamViolentModern LifeEloquentMilitantJihadPhobiaHegemonyIslamistsBurqa Author:Daniel Pipes
“It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in a decision which gives it its greatest value. It is the carry-over in the decision which helps develop the situation in the way we wish it to be developed. The ablest administrators do not merely draw logical conclusions from the array of facts of the past which their expert assistants bring to them; they have a vision of the future.” MenWayGivingFactsHelpingPastValuesLeftWishDecisionSituationVisionDrawsRateConclusionExpertsLogicalAssistantsAdministratorsSecond RateVisions Of The FuturePresent Situation Book:Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett Source: Dynamic administration: the collected papers of Mary Parker Follett
“I wish I could take back some of the things I said and some of the things I did. But in the bigger picture, I don't feel that it was violent and terrible. I feel like it was primarily--obviously not completely--moral, based on a vision that the government should be better, and that people could be better, and that democracy should be real.” PeopleFeelsShouldSaidRealGovernmentWishMoralVisionDemocracyTerribleMoralityBiggerViolentBeing RealBigger Picture Author:Bernardine Dohrn
“O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see! crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest: God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore; wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer.” JoyNamesWishPeacePrayerVisionGloryBlessedEndlessFulfillmentShoreCrownsWearyJerusalemSabbathValiantEvermore Author:Peter Abelard