Al-Mutanabbi Quotes

Glory in hardship, sloth in comfort lies.

Al-Mutanabbi

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• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • First
  • Army

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Loved
  • First Time

• If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Champion
  • Wait

• One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Always
  • Mad
  • Others

• Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • School
  • Job

• Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Writing
  • Universe
  • Bike

• Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Possible
  • Leave
  • Playground

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Believe

• The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Sleep
  • Sea
  • Wind

• Luiheid mag aantrekkelijk schijnen, werken geeft bevrediging.

  

  Anne Frank

• I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Moving

• Her own grief grieved her. His devastated her. (On Sophie Mol's death, describing Mamachi's grief, and Chacko's).

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Death
  • Grief

• You want to keep the defense guessing.

  

  Kyrie Irving

• If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Fear
  • Woods
  • Spider

• You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • World
  • Start
  • Little Things

• You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Money

• The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.

  

  Lewis B. Smedes
  • Lies

• Only in the steady and constant application of force lies the very first prerequisite for success. This persistence, however, can always and only arise from a definite spiritual conviction. Any violence which does not spring from a firm, spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Violence
  • Lies
  • Persistence

• Glory in hardship, sloth in comfort lies.

  

  Al-Mutanabbi
  • Lies
  • Glory
  • Sloth