Rumi Quotes

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I did a shoot with massive iguanas in Costa Rica when I was modeling back then. They were like little dinosaurs, and they sat right across my arms and by my face. The guy told me not to make any sudden movements because they had enormous claws. The guy said he would rip my skin if he attacked.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Said

• I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Up
  • Work
  • Father

• I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Humanity
  • Learn
  • Understand

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Security

• I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Love
  • Joy

• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • American
  • Health

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• All the busy little creatureschasing out their destinies.Living in their poolsthey soon forget about the sea... - Natural Science (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Science
  • Sea

• 'What civilization would be complete without a cat?' the Professor went on. 'What greater blessing to the home than the kindly yet watchful eye of this tiger of the fireside?'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Home
  • Cat
  • Tiger

• My late father Rev. James Thomas McGlowan was the inspiration behind 'Bamboozled.' My father admired Frederick Douglass' courage and his bravery in the face of adversity.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Father
  • Courage
  • Inspiration

• I think it is wrong to spend $4 or $5 million in a campaign.

  

  Bill Scott

• Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

  

  Charles Bent
  • Prayer

• And my little sister died when she was 16.

  

  Jeremy London
  • She
  • Sister

• I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Friends
  • Funny

• Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, this drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls till they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practise villainies, and to know every godless deed. But all the men who wrought this thing for hire have made it sure that, soon or late, they shall pay the price.

  

  Sophocles
  • Men
  • Money
  • Price

• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Justice
  • Destiny
  • Tied

• Do not suppose, first of all, that Mao Tse-tung could be the "saviour" of China. Nonsense. There will never be one "saviour" of China. Yet undeniably you feel a certain force of destiny in him.

  

  Edgar Snow
  • Destiny
  • China
  • Saviour

• Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

  

  Rumi
  • Destiny
  • Souls
  • Shape