Al-Shafi‘i Quotes
The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.
Al-Shafi‘i
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
Rachel Platten
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It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries, adventure, young adult, romance, fantasy, science fiction.
Randy Alcorn
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
Ted Danson
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There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
Anand Giridharadas
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
John Lancaster Spalding
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Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.
David Hume
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I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.
Bryan Adams
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
Byung Hun
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We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
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When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.
Chogyam Trungpa
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The opposite of ‘open’ isn’t closed. The opposite of open is broken.
John Wilbanks
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Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up your audition process. I was very bad at auditioning, and I always went in to it saying ‘God I hope I don’t screw this up.’ But at the same time, the directors are saying, ‘God, I hope this person is the savior.’ You have to remember is that the worst thing that could happen is you don’t get the job you don’t already have.
George Clooney
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot
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Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss...
John Milton
