Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
Karl Liebknecht -
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks -
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
Nancy Pelosi -
Peace is its own reward.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
Ian Hart -
There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
Victor Cruz -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I have been chastised by a president, I have antagonized and angered presidents, and I have taken on my own leadership.
Xavier Becerra -
I hate the past - especially my own past.
Karl Lagerfeld -
You never toot your own horn.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
Victor Hugo -
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack Prelutsky -
The dimple that thy chin contains has beauty in its round,That never has been fathomed yet by myriad thoughts profound.
Hafez -
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.
Alexander Pope -
The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell -
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
Alexandre Dumas
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I started writing songs at age 15.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
Gabriel Byrne -
My father lead by fear. I did what my father said ‘cause I was scared of getting my ass beat. His voice rang so vividly in my head. That it was just…a fear.
Nelly -
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
Antonio Machado -
A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.
Rex Stout -
Protect yourself from your own thoughts.
Rumi