Rumi Quotes
Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
Quotes to Explore
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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Is that a real country?
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Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America…
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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You have Mel Brooks and your Marx Brothers and your Larry David. So it's affected it enormously and really not at all. I don't think I've ever done anything comedically where the joke of it had to do with Judaism and Jewishness, but there's definitely a proud tradition of comedy in the Jews.
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Truth is like a bell. We strike it, and then the beautiful resonance of sound fades into silence.
