Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Up
  • Same
  • Roots

• Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • For Her

• It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Live
  • Play

• Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Running
  • Choice
  • Clear

• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Change

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Faith
  • Organization
  • Level

• We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Organization
  • Clear
  • Only

• In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.) If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of - Christianity and Islam.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Knowledge
  • Moral
  • Lawyer

• Soap operas were my first professional experiences, and I always knew I was eager to explore a lot more work in a lot more arenas.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Work
  • Professional
  • Explore

• Safety has been my top legislative priority. I'm driven by the idea that safety is really a core function of government.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Safety
  • Priority

• One of the things that I really admire about the Marvel motion pictures is that, in one year, 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier,' which was a taut political thriller, and 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' which was a cosmic comedy, came out, and they could not be more different, and yet they both felt very Marvel.

  

  Jeph Loeb
  • Different
  • America
  • Political

• Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Book

• It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • History
  • Reality
  • Heaven

• Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld

• Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

  

  James MacArthur
  • World
  • Power
  • Understanding

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change in oneself, and that change is a kind of struggle with one's false self.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Power
  • Change
  • Struggle