Rumi Quotes

My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul

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• People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Culture
  • Hate

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • More
  • Really

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Truth Is

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Simple
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Hate
  • Taken
  • Changes

• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Control
  • Trump
  • News

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Politics
  • Born
  • Bachelor

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Age
  • Memories
  • Old Age

• My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, and they have never left me. Since I was 14, the overriding objective of my life has been to prevent the occurrence of nuclear war.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Life
  • War
  • My Life

• Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Favorite

• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe

• Yesterday Sisley was looking for me everywhere. Madame Latouche told me that he wanted some information about the technique of painting fans. Well, this means my fans are spoken of.. .I only fear one thing: that they will finally say that's all I am good for! fans!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Painting

• I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Time

• 'I assume I'm expendable, sir.' 'You're a soldier, aren't you? Of course you're expendable!' Sharpe was still smiling. He was a soldier, and a lady needed recuing, and was that not what soldiers throughout history had done?

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Done
  • History
  • Soldier

• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Thinking
  • Matter
  • Thing

• Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

  

  Cullen Hightower
  • Thinking
  • Worry

• I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • People
  • Life

• My Beloved Know that my beloved in hidden from everyone Know that she is beyond the belief of all beliefs Know that in my heart she is as clear as the moon Know that she is the life in my body and in my soul

  

  Rumi
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