Rumi Quotes

First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.

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• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Men
  • You
  • Serving

• High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • High
  • Fashion

• Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • You
  • Transformation

• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • God
  • American

• In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Perfect

• Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • You
  • Will
  • Pool

• When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Difficult

• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Long
  • Search

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • World
  • Parents
  • Amazing

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • World
  • Experience
  • Energy

• Being editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and 'Observer' is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first-class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis, and digital innovation.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Team

• Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm sudden outbreak of emotion of intensity and charm. (p. 59)

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Good
  • Evil

• I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.

  

  Al Madrigal
  • Why
  • May
  • Guy

• Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Civilization

• First, when I was apart from you, this world did not exist, nor any other. Second, whatever I was looking for was always you.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Exist
  • Apart