Omar Khayyam Quotes
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.Omar Khayyam
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
Daniel Boulud -
Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
Ed Asner -
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo -
To read too many books is harmful.
Mao Zedong
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
Kate Smith -
I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
Nadine Labaki -
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
Natalie Dormer -
We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
Ted Sarandos -
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
Viktor Orban -
I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
Kate Thompson
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I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
P. J. Soles -
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Sam Smith -
I guess I'm just a frustrated cowboy.
Larry Wilcox -
If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr. -
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt -
When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate.
Lady Gregory
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
Malcolm Turnbull -
What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.
Napoleon Hill -
Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
Eason Jordan -
I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
Jesse Williams -
Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.
Andy Rooney -
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
Omar Khayyam