Rabia Basri Quotes

True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
  • Religious

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Design

• I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Life
  • Doing
  • My Life

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Silly

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Up
  • Going
  • Everyone

• The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Question
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Evolution
  • Brains

• Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Together
  • Faith

• Not in Utopia, -- subterranean fields, --Or some secreted island, Heaven knows whereBut in the very world, which is the worldOf all of us, -- the place where in the endWe find our happiness, or not at all

  

  William Wordsworth
  • World
  • Heaven
  • Utopia

• Τίς εἶναι θέλεις, σαυτῷ πρῶτον εἰπέ: εἶθ' οὕτως ποίει ἃ ποιεῖς.

  

  Epictetus

• Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

  

  James L. Brooks
  • Work
  • Picture

• Go through John's Gospel, and study the 'believes,' the 'verilys,' the ' I ams; 'and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Book
  • Study
  • Bible

• True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.

  

  Rabia Basri
  • True
  • Fear
  • Desire