Rumi Quotes

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

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• I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Working
  • Out
  • Incapable

• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Man
  • Joy
  • Watch

• Truth is the best defense.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Truth Is

• A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Violence
  • Ask
  • Fair

• Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Think
  • Judge
  • Shoes

• Did you know that, pound for pound, the moose is the leanest ruminant on Earth? It's true. Moose are very in tune with their natural surroundings.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • True
  • Earth
  • Know

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Sun

• 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
  • Up
  • World
  • Hands

• I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.

  

  Feist
  • Writing
  • Blood
  • Stone

• I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • High
  • Education
  • California

• The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Freedom
  • Jesus
  • Slave

• Nothing's ever gone. We fool ourselves that things fade, but they never do.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Fool

• 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
  • Cry
  • Silent
  • Spares

• 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
  • Court
  • Complaint
  • Eminently

• 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
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Succeed

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• 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
  • Nature
  • Funny
  • Boy

• 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
  • Lake
  • Lakes
  • Dew

• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• But I'm glad I'm not one of those actresses who is just so ready to open up for everyone.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Ready
  • Glad

• I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Church
  • Record
  • Goodbye

• When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

  

  Rumi
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  • Blows