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

• Desire
• Snakes
• Pit
• Scorpion
• Expanse

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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  • Greek
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• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
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  • She
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• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
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• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
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• I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
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• Nothing in life is promised except death.

  

  Kanye West
  • Life
  • Death
  • Nothing

• I would consider myself conservative but sensible and pragmatic.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Myself
  • Conservative

• Your anger is a gift.

  

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  • Gift
  • Anger
  • Your

• 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
  • Good
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• 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
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• Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

  

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• 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
  • Alone
  • Waiting
  • Baby

• 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
  • Done

• 'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  

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• A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Money

• I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Desire
  • Glamorous
  • Ingenue

• Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

  

  Emmanuel Levinas
  • Food
  • Desire
  • Hungry

• Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!

  

  Candice Olson
  • Heart
  • May
  • House

• 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
  • Desire
  • Snakes
  • Pit