Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi Quotes

It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.

Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi

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• I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Silence

• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Silence
  • Conversation
  • Also

• Silence is a source of great strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Silence
  • Strength

• I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learn
  • Difficult
  • Languages

• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Silence
  • Write
  • Own

• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Crowd

• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Love
  • Silence
  • Listen

• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • May
  • Words
  • Challenge

• I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Time
  • House
  • Sleep

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• All I know is the dark, the night underground. And that’s all there really is. That’s all there is to know, in the end. The silence, and the dark. You know everything, wizard. But I know one thing - the one true thing!

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True
  • Night
  • Dark

• Why do we weep in grief,' the aunt wondered. 'Dogs, deer, birds sufferent with dry eyes and in silence. The dumb suffering of animals. Probably a survival technique.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Suffering

• The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Silence

• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • May
  • Silence
  • Broken

• Climate change is not an excuse to silence political speech.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Political
  • Silence

• If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Faith

• A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Cool
  • Dollars

• Here are his earlier letters to me, that I've framed. I call them ‘my degrees’.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Framed

• I have been passionate about the oceans since I dipped my toes in the water at the first age of three.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Age
  • Water

• If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

  

  Betty Carter
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Beginning

• It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.

  

  Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
  • Silence
  • Speaks
  • Whispers