Abdul-Qadir Gilani Quotes

Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

Abdul-Qadir Gilani

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• I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Understand

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• The first time onstage, a light went on. 'OK, this is my thing. I'm comfortable here. This is my thing.'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Time
  • Light
  • Comfortable

• [London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Dirty

• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Actor

• Late-day trading is like being permitted to bet on yesterday's horse races, ... You already know who's going to win.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Win
  • Horse
  • Races

• FAITH is the only known antidote for FAILURE!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Faith
  • Failure
  • Antidote

• I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • She
  • Way
  • Deep

• I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most memoirs are false novels.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Novel

• Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Opinions
  • Attacking
  • Public Service

• I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Find
  • Solace
  • Mount

• Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • Die
  • Never
  • Berlin

• My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Families

• I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Exercise

• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Imagination
  • Exercise
  • Sad

• Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

  

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani
  • Appearance
  • Fooled
  • Taken Away