Rumi Quotes

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

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• I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Like
  • Television
  • Plays

• I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Doing
  • Project
  • Whatever

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Red
  • Say
  • Texas

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Woman

• I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Girl

• The good news is that the ownership team and the rest of the hard-working, loyal, and driven staff over here at your hometown Cavaliers have not betrayed you nor never will betray you.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Team
  • Rest

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Loved

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Trump
  • Said

• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • You
  • Will
  • Vicious

• All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

  

  S. Ansky
  • Himself
  • Jew
  • Few

• I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Today
  • Respect
  • Perfect

• Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people's greatest help. True words seem paradoxical.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Practice
  • Sorrow
  • Remains

• One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

  

  William Carlos Williams
  • Perfect
  • Realizing
  • Advantage

• You must in all Airs follow the strength, spirit, and disposition of the horse, and do nothing against nature; for art is but to set nature in order, and nothing else.

  

  William Cavendish
  • Art
  • Spirit
  • Horse

• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Poet
  • Isolation

• This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere.

  

  Rumi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Mirror