Rumi Quotes

I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

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• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Office

• I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Been

• Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Life
  • Day
  • Fashion

• The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Know
  • Old

• Looking at the other person’s point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Party

• Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Aids
  • Preach
  • Free Love

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian

• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Trying

• To make a bank was a great plot of state;Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Great

• My faith in human dignity consists in the belief that man is the greatest scamp on earth. Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp and not with that of an obedient, disciplined and regimented soldier.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Earth
  • Faith
  • Soldier

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.

  

  Brett Weston
  • Work
  • Words
  • Verbal person

• I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

  

  William Blake
  • Love
  • Divine
  • Mutual

• He once thought it himself, that he might die with grief: for his wife, his daughters, his sisters, his father and master the cardinal. But pulse, obdurate, keeps its rhythm. You think you cannot keep breathing, but your ribcage has other ideas, rising and falling, emitting sighs. You must thrive in spite of yourself; and so that you may do it, God takes out your heart of flesh, and gives you a heart of stone.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Fall

• I looked in temples, churches, and mosques. But I found the Divine within my heart.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Found
  • Divine