Wang Wei Quotes

Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

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• Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.

  

  K. Flay
  • Rich
  • Something
  • Hip Hop

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Anger
  • Greed
  • Follow

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• My Welsh grandmother Mair didn't meet my grandfather until she was 28, quite old to be unmarried in the early '40s.

  

  Kate Williams
  • She
  • Grandmother
  • Grandfather

• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Idea
  • Simply
  • No Idea

• I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Book
  • First
  • Author

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Music
  • Record
  • Gentleman

• More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • Power
  • Success
  • Man

• I believe Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country in which churches are prohibited.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Night

• ...the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • Men
  • Power
  • Advice

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

  

  Macy Gray
  • People
  • Weird

• I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Work
  • School
  • Peace

• The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Giving
  • Risk
  • Advice

• And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Believe
  • Matter

• Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Firsts
  • Faces

• Look in the perfumes of flowers and of nature for peace of mind and joy of life.

  

  Wang Wei
  • Peace
  • Looks
  • Flower