Ishmael Quotes

• If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

  Daniel Quinn

  Confused, Ifs

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.25, Bantam

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• five severed fingers do not make a hand

  Daniel Quinn

  Hands, Gorillas, Fingers

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

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• As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Children, Enemy

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.665, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Father, Islamic

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• I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Challenges, Narrative, Reeds

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ahab, Captains, Survived

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!

  John Bytheway

  Daughter, Wife, Wells

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• David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

  Ishmael Reed

  People, Criticism, Reeds

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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