Rumi Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Harlan Coben -
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
Baltasar Gracian -
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson -
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth -
I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.
Magnus Scheving -
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
Padgett Powell
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel Johnson -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul -
I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
Calvin Harris -
I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray -
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Yitzhak Shamir -
Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
Eduard Shevardnadze
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
Adam Grant -
I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie -
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
Ramakrishna -
I think sometimes when you want attention, you can wear sunglasses, and people are like, 'Who is that?'
Kat Graham -
Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell
Ad Reinhardt
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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.
Bernie Sanders -
Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
J. P. Morgan -
If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.
Uday Kotak -
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
Hal David -
Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Daniel Defoe -
Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.
Rumi