Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion. '
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.
A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.
When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.
I love collecting; my joy is finding private press American or European home studio electronic music from the 60s and 70s.
For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.
Collecting the dots. Then connecting them. And then sharing the connections with those around you. This is how a creative human works. Collecting, connecting, sharing.
Louis Brandeis actually changes his mind about women's suffrage because he works with these brilliant women in the women's suffrage movement like Josephine Goldmark, his sister-in-law, where he writes a Brandeis brief which convinced the court to uphold maximum hour laws for women by collecting all these facts and empirical evidence.
My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.
My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting.
I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.
Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.
It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence. " [. . . ] "In Ziploc bags. " "I think they're Glad. " "They look impartial to me.
Political campaign must not be aimed at collecting ballots, instead, it's honestly aim at seeking support for an ideology.
The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.
[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.