Rumi Quotes

Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.

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• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Find
  • Key

• Tom Brokaw was never young.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Never
  • Young
  • Tom

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Act
  • Smoke
  • Absurd

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Present

• My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Time
  • Walking

• All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Power
  • Rest

• We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Work
  • Live
  • Alone

• We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Survival

• I went over to the Sargent, said, 'Sargent, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sitting here on the bench, I mean I'm sitting here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after being a litterbug.'

  

  Arlo Guthrie
  • Women
  • Kids
  • Moral

• Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Life
  • Eyes

• I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Success

• Chris Paul is one of the brightest stars in the National Basketball Association, a must-see player with the New Orleans Hornets whose deft ball skills and eye-popping speed have attracted admirers all over the world.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • World
  • Player
  • Basketball

• In the post-Snowden world, you need to enable others to build their own cloud and have mobility of applications. That’s both because of the physicality of computing–where the speed of light still matters–and because of geopolitics.

  

  Satya Nadella
  • World
  • Clouds
  • Speed

• He's a character, ... So I take his parameters and don't infuse my issues or parameters one way or the other. He's a guy that is functioning drunk. He has what they call a traveling buzz. He might step out and have a short one at noon, but he never gets falling-down drunk.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Issues

• Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise),.4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Comedy
  • Reason
  • Sick

• Your sweetest blasphemy is the truest devotion. Through you a whole world is freed.

  

  Rumi
  • World
  • Devotion
  • Blasphemy