Rumi Quotes

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Children
  • Perfect
  • Responsibility

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Play
  • Fashion
  • Like

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• The GOP is broken. They need a Bill Clinton moment with someone to figure things out. Let me just say - and I don't agree with his policies, so let me put a warning label on the side of the packet here - If George W. Bush had never gotten in the disastrous Iraq war, he was trying to modernize the party on a series of fronts.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Trying
  • War
  • Party

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Woman
  • Young
  • Name

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• It's unarguable that the right shoes can really add elegance to an outfit and to the person who's wearing them. Take a pair of high heels, for instance. Suddenly, you're looking taller, shoulders back, body curved.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • High
  • Body
  • Shoes

• I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Team
  • Reading

• Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Men
  • Cold
  • Pants

• Personal religion collapses with some individuals, because in their case it had long been growing hollow and thin. ... In reality there was little personal religion to lose, and that little would probably have been lost in some other way.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Growing

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• There were times and you want to be free My love is growing stronger, as you become a habit to me. Oh I've been loving you a little too longI don't wanna stop now, oh. With you my life, Has been so wonderful. I can't stop now.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Stop

• 9. Even when the sensory objects to be known are in the proximity, when the difference is not taken in, the mind does not cause a break in Yoga.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Taken
  • Yoga

• He who hesitates, meditates horizontally

  

  Ed Parker
  • Meditates
  • Hesitates

• There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Job
  • Years
  • Barrel

• It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • World
  • Language
  • Speak

• If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • See
  • Faces