Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni (Aid al-Qarni) Quotes

Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.

Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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• I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Myself

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trouble

• Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Time
  • Now
  • Most

• I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • You

• There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Different
  • Giving
  • Energy

• We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Live
  • Black
  • Ignorance

• I want to focus on the importance of supporting marriage. I always speak about the need to respect everyone's human dignity - regardless of their sexual orientation. I think strengthening marriage is something that benefits everyone.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Respect
  • Focus
  • Marriage

• I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Character

• For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• I'm never trying to break a career high out there.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Trying
  • High
  • Career

• I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Work

• I'm definitely careful. I'm not reckless or stupid, but that's how I was raised, to not be stupid or immature in as far as trying to grow up too quickly or putting forward a certain image that isn't me.

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Stupid

• Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Life
  • Work

• Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

  

  Franz Grillparzer
  • Progress

• I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

  

  Martina Hingis
  • Mind
  • Fitness

• I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

  

  Ellis Peters
  • People
  • Value
  • Gold

• Is there any of me, or of any of us, that isn’t just consequence?I think, and I’ve thought it over a lot, that everything that ever happened keeps on happening, extending tendrils of itself endlessly into the moving present tense of time, porducing its echoes, and explosions and extinctions forever.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Present

• Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Meant To Be

• I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

  

  Basil Hume
  • God
  • Hope
  • Confidence

• If, by one determined purpose, the hearts of all the graduates, the officials, and the men of China were united, our country would rest upon a great rock, and we could defy the world to overthrow us. To attain this object, it is necessary first that every man should fulfill his duty to his parents and elders. The country would then be at peace.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Suffering
  • Nation
  • Reform

• Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.

  

  Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
  • Meant To Be