Rumi Quotes

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

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• I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trouble
  • Face
  • Inside

• There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Help
  • Illness
  • Universal

• A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Child
  • More

• Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why Howard Stern is such a great radio talent. People on his show are actually speaking to each other. You might not like what they're saying, but they're real conversations.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• In the cotton States, after the war...the Jew came down in force, set up shop on the plantation, supplied all the negro's wants on credit, and at the end of the season was proprietor of the negro's share of the present crop and of part of his share of the next one. Before long, the whites detested the Jew, and it is doubtful if the negro loved him.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Needs

• The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Kind

• Try not to miss me when I'm gone.

  

  Jeremy McKinnon A Day to Remember
  • Miss

• He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Capitol Hill

• To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Romance

• I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Philosophy
  • Biology

• It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Humanity
  • Touch
  • Sweetness

• Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

  

  Sergey Brin
  • World
  • Successful
  • Trusted

• To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object.

  

  Colin Gunton
  • God
  • Way
  • Image

• Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

  

  Rumi
  • To Be
  • Lover
  • Let