Al-Maʿarri Quotes
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.Al-Maʿarri
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I don't need any nicknames.
Victor Cruz -
I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
Victor Cruz -
We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.
Randall L. Stephenson -
The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
Lata Mangeshkar -
I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
Rachel Platten -
We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
Umberto Eco -
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
Jack Reed -
I'm a believer in paying your dues.
Dana Fox -
I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
Wally Schirra -
Nothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye West -
My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.
J. M. W. Turner
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
Dan Savage -
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
Edgar Degas -
Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
Tanith Lee -
He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God
Laura Nyro -
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. Clement Stone -
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Arthur C. Clarke
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When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the 'blame America first crowd' didn't blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States. But then, they always blame America first. . . . The American people know better.
Jeane Kirkpatrick -
I was born and have ever remaind [sic] in the most humble walks of life.
Abraham Lincoln -
There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
Fernando Pessoa -
Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.
Mary Lynn Rajskub -
We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.
Ingmar Bergman -
Reason forbade me many things which, Instinctively, my nature was attracted to; And a perpetual loss I feel if, knowing, I believe a falsehood or deny the truth.
Al-Maʿarri