Al-Masudi Quotes
He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.Al-Masudi
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
Dan Quinn -
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
Natalie Dormer -
Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Walton -
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Haile Selassie -
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
Flavor Flav -
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
Ted Sarandos
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
S. Truett Cathy -
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
Barack Obama -
Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
Viktor Orban -
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
Ian Mckellen -
We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
Madeleine Albright -
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Harrison Salisbury
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I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.
Abigail Spencer -
If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
Donald Trump -
I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.
Alber Elbaz -
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
James Buchan -
Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
Charles Baudelaire -
Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he's a very funny man.
Alfie Allen
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You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough.
Frank Crane -
I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.
Jimmy Lai -
The villain drives the plot.
Gayle Lynds -
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
Peter Ackroyd -
He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.
Al-Masudi