Rumi Quotes

Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.

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• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Women
  • Become

• I hate the analyzing thing. People say, 'Why do you think your character did that? I don't know. I'm not an analyst, and they're not in psychotherapy. Unless it's a film where they're in therapy.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  

  Florence King
  • Life
  • Women
  • American

• I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Beginning

• Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Long
  • Job
  • Movie

• We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Dog
  • Bed
  • Quotation

• The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Different
  • Challenges
  • Generation

• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Live
  • Want
  • Myself

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• The kind of person who's going to stand on the red carpet and love the attention and have the big grin - I'm just not like that. I want to get in there, do what I've got to do, and get home to my kids.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Love
  • Home
  • Kids

• To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Boss

• ... actresses require protection in their art from blind abuse, from savage criticism. Their work is their religion, if they are seeking the best in their art, and to abuse that faith is to rob them, to dishonor them.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Work
  • Art
  • Faith

• You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Free
  • Community

• Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

  

  Li Ka-shing
  • People
  • Different
  • Friends

• There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent.

  

  Rumi
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  • Appears