Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
Hampton Sides
-
Truth is the best defense.
Ward Churchill
-
A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
Jack Schwartz
-
Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
Edgardo Osorio
-
When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
Mallory Ortberg
-
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
-
I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
Feist
-
The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.
R. C. Sproul
-
Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.
Nalini Singh
-
Love, and do what you will. If you are silent, be silent for love; or if you cry out, cry out for love. If you chastise, chastise for love; if you spare, spare for love.
Saint Augustine
-
I've made it eminently clear, anyone who walks away will be sued, ... It will take me 10 minutes to sign a complaint, we'll be in court.
Eliot Spitzer
-
I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.
Adam Sandler
-
My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.
Cynthia Nixon
-
Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.
S. J. Perelman
-
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.
Rabindranath Tagore
-
My best advice: win little battles. Get in the habit of winning, of shipping, of having customers that can't live without you. Once you've demonstrated you know how to do the art, then go after the windmills.
Seth Godin
-
Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.
C.P. Cavafy
-
I am very much against weapons in space.
Scott Bakula
-
Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.
J. B. MacKinnon
-
A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.
Simone de Beauvoir
-
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Rumi