Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

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• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Help
  • Fun
  • Gift

• I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Good
  • Game
  • College

• Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • World
  • Work
  • Peace

• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

  

  Young Thug
  • Focus
  • Feel
  • Phone

• I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I own nothing; I just stay with friends all over the country.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Own

• I don't want to be away from wrestling even a little.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Want
  • Wrestling
  • Little

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Grateful

• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Purpose

• Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Live
  • Strong

• My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Family
  • Done
  • Business

• He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • People
  • Kindness
  • Paradise

• Relying on the power of kindness is a sensitive undertaking. The challenge is to inspire people to be kind more often without tainting the selflessness that comes from doing something nice with no ulterior motive.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • Power
  • Nice

• The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Power
  • Control

• What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Generation
  • Essence

• Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Kindness
  • Thing
  • Deepest