Al-Mutanabbi Quotes
Content with complete verses, I sleep, while others strain for simple rhymes.
Al-Mutanabbi
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'...there were some things that were true, and some things that were trite; but what was true was trite, and what was not trite was not true...'
Arthur Balfour
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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
Livy
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On the whole, the enjoyment of leisure is something which decidedly costs less than the enjoyment of luxury. All it requires is an artistic temperament which is bent on seeking a perfectly useless afternoon spent in a perfectly useless manner.
Lin Yutang
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Now, metaphorically, I sit at any table that I want. I can sit with the jocks, I can sit with the gang members, I can sit with the politicians, I can sit with the CEOs. My brand can fit anywhere.
Karen Civil
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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
James Whistler
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To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion.
Emily Mortimer
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I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.
Kathy Bates
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Everyone has their own taste: some like theatre, some don't, some like opera, some don't, some like pantomimes, and some don't.
Clive Rowe
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Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary... That has always been a potent combination.
Brad Stone
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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
Adrian Tomine
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I felt a curious thrill, as if something had stirred in me, half wakened from sleep. There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Content with complete verses, I sleep, while others strain for simple rhymes.
Al-Mutanabbi
