Rumi Quotes

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

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• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Boy
  • Inside
  • Little

• Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Boss
  • Hugo

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Love
  • Why
  • Power

• I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Gold
  • Look

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Better
  • Now
  • Competitive

• I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Pride
  • Honor

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was careless because there'd be some cache now in being a northern playwright, but I missed out on that one.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Never
  • Now

• Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• The way those sons-of-bitches took advantage of me. Warhol is a sadistic faggot.

  

  Edie Sedgwick

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Stock

• You live day by day. You can't build your life.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Life
  • Live

• When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star.

  

  Maureen O'Hara
  • Star

• Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Feels
  • Views
  • Solitary

• So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

  

  Naoto Kan
  • Country
  • Lost
  • Japan

• I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne

• Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure, Crowned by consenting nations peerless queen of gayety: She laugheth at the wrath of Ocean, she mocketh the fury of Vesuvius,She spurneth disease, and misery, and famine, that crowd her sunny streets.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • She
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

  

  George Sand
  • Thinking
  • Silence
  • Prevent

• Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

  

  Rumi
  • Silence
  • Ocean
  • River