Rumi Quotes

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

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• Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Night

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Song

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• By the time Africa is developed, it will be the wonderland of the world, 'cause it will be able to make use of all the mistakes of other nations. But it nah go just drop out of the sky. So we have to put in work.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Sky
  • Hat

• He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sky

• If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sky

• The countryside meant grain and herds, and a river meant fish. And if the sky meant anything, it meant a cruel God who took no notice of their pains and chastised them if they sinned.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Sky
  • River

• If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright,Go visit it by the pale moonlight.

  

  Walter Scott
  • View
  • Fair
  • Moonlight

• Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Sleep

• I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my handsand wrote my will across the sky in stars To gain you Freedom, the seven-pillared worthy house, that your eyes might be shining for meWhen I came.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • House
  • Freedom

• All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Die
  • Alone
  • Brain

• Comets at the time were considered by theologians and the general public alike as a sign of divine anger, and God must have seemed pretty pissed off to create this one - it occupied more than half of the visible sky.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • Time
  • God
  • Pretty

• I'm flat on the floor, with my head down low, where the sky can't rain on me anymore.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Sky
  • Rain

• And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Dark
  • Vision

• There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Sky

• Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid,We have built a tower of stone high into the sky,We have built a city of towers.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • High
  • City
  • Sky

• The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Men
  • Together
  • Giving

• I have grown up on literature and mythological stories. They have fascinated me since childhood, and I believe every character that I portray on screen is an extension of my personality to some degree. That is why whatever role I play seems in my comfort zone.

  

  Ashish Sharma
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Why

• At the international level, everyone is a great athlete, but these three things are the difference-makers when it comes to winning championships.

  

  Amy Rodriguez
  • Winning
  • Level
  • Championships

• The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Friend

• Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

  

  Rumi
  • Sky
  • Moonlight
  • Floods