Famous Quotes

Quotes by Nas

• The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
• The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
• The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
• The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
• The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.
• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
• The Son of God became man so that we might become God.
• The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
• The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
• The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.
• The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
• There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
• There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
• Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
• Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
• Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a 'normal' person.
• To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it Whenever you're right, shut up.
• To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
• To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
• To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
• We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
• We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
• What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
• Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
• When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.
• When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.
• When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
• With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
• Women would rather be right than reasonable.
• Wonder is the desire for knowledge.