Rumi Quotes
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Rumi
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West
I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.
Victor Mitchell
Your anger is a gift.
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Rage Against the Machine
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
Garry Hynes
I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, 'OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?'
Zooey Deschanel
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
P. G. Wodehouse
Romeo take me somewhere, we can be alone.I'll be waiting; all there's left to do is run.You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess,It's a love story, baby, just say yes.
Taylor Swift
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtleAre emblems of deeds that are done in their clime?Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle,Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!
Lord Byron
'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
Lewis Carroll
A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
Doyle Brunson
But, you know, sex is controversial, it just is and it always will be.
Liam Neeson
When I was doing fringe theatre, my ambition was to do repertory. When I got to rep it was to do national theatre; then it was t,o get a couple of parts in television. I never had this great desire to overreach myself. I was too busy enjoying acting. I was just obsessed with it.
Eddie Marsan
I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
Salman Rushdie
Cain is completely dissatisfied with the security granted to him by God, and so he searches out his own security. ... He will satisfy his desire for eternity by producing children, and he will satisfy his desire for security by creating a place belonging to him, a city.
Jacques Ellul
I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.
Ray Bradbury
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur,
so that you see the scorpion pit
as an object of desire,
and all the beautiful expanse around it
as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
Rumi
