Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni (Aid al-Qarni) Quotes
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
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All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.
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A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
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It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice versa, and even into German and Italian when necessary. No doubt translations into Esperanto will also soon be in demand.
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I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
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Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.
