Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
Quotes to Explore
-
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
-
I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only trip I took in my whole childhood. We stepped off a metro train and were approached by a talent scout who told me that she wanted to sign me to her modeling agency.
-
If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
-
Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
-
I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
-
I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
-
The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
-
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
-
I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
-
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
-
So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
-
America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
-
Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
-
The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.
-
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
-
Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
-
I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
-
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
-
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
-
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
-
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
-
This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.
-
O man! Prepare yourself for the Hereafter, obey Allah to the extent of your need for Him and anger Him to the extent of your patience in Hell.
