Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
Gary Bettman -
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
Damon Albarn Blur -
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey -
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
Nadia Comaneci -
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
Tammy Faye Bakker -
I get notes posted on my windscreen wipers and through my letterbox.
Zoe Sugg -
Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Barbara Januszkiewicz -
I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.
Sam Brownback -
Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even for you.' You got to share with the people. You got to inspire the people.
Fat Joe -
I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
Kara Walker
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Omari Hardwick -
I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
Ted Yoho -
It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
Larry Hogan -
Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.
Daley Thompson -
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
Hamish Bowles -
I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.
Rabih Alameddine
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
Erica Jong -
Gun violence is almost promoted onscreen in these huge blockbusters and then sex is still so shocking. But I also can understand that people find it uncomfortable, which I think is cool.
Morgan Saylor -
Believe the truth of God's Word over the facts of your circumstances.
Christine Caine -
Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.
Jonathan Swift -
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten -
When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.
Rumi