Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

• World of illusion

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• I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.

  

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
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• The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

  

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• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
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• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  

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• It is true I'd rather get a hole in one than win an Academy Award.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

  

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• Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

  

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• Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms - all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet…. The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

  

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• If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

  

  Randall Jarrell
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• Since trifles make the sum of human things,And half our misery from our foibles springs.

  

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• Socialists do not propose to substitute the domination of society by one privileged class for that of another. They seek to abolish class distinctions altogether. The abolition of classes is fundamental to the Socialist conception of society.

  

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• A France or a Belgium is not quite a sovereign nation any more, and thus does not have complete control over its national destiny or foreign relations.

  

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• Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?

  

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• I've gotten a lot of compliments on the 'Criminal Minds' guy. I guess it's because the look of that character is so different from what people expect of me.

  

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• I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

  

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• I wanted to focus on creating a solid foundation, creating my blueprint, and understanding who I was. You can get distracted easily, and people take you off course with just a compliment. I wanted the focus to be on Karen Civil the businessperson, not what I wore, not what I looked like.

  

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• When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

  

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• Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

  

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• My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

  

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• Governments everywhere that are unable to guarantee equitable growth and social welfare have suffered a fatal decay of legitimacy.

  

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• I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

  

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• I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

  

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• In this world of illusion, where at the end of the examination, we find everything to be of little importance, of little worth, if there is a sign of reality, of something one can depend upon, and in which one can recognize a sign of eternity, it is in the constancy of friendship.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World of illusion