Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

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• It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • World
  • Best
  • Honor

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Help
  • Guidance

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang

• So high, so low, so many things to know.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • High

• Pour tromper un rival l'artifice est permis; on peut tout employer contres ses ennemis.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu

• Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Heart
  • Death

• The nearest way to God Leads through love's open door; The path of knowledge is Too slow for evermore

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Running
  • Friend
  • Joy

• I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• Let's end the political games. Stop the finger pointing and do the work the American people sent us here to do.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • People
  • Work
  • American

• To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

  

  John Burdett
  • Mind

• 'There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.' - source

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Attention
  • Rock
  • Star

• I have a Russian heart.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Heart

• For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Reading

• If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Heart
  • Flame