Saadi Quotes

When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Things
  • Try

• Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Home
  • Help

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I like doing my own stunts.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Doing
  • My Own

• I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Family
  • Way
  • Born

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • Story
  • Script

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Greatness
  • Chase

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

  

  Edmund Burke

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Focus

• Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Value
  • End
  • Capitalism

• 'What, now?' 'Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.'

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good

• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Laughter
  • Glitter
  • Pretentious

• When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within every jacket there is a man.

  

  Saadi
  • Enemy