Nizar Qabbani Quotes

A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

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• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Long
  • Cool

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Me
  • Ask
  • Remain

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Country
  • Family
  • Movies

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability 'fixed'-by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me-for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Learning
  • Dance

• She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She

• Even though you were once a goddess, Kalidasa’s heaven was only an illusion.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Heaven
  • Goddess

• British Pathé: Mrs. Margaret (Sanger) Slee, President of America’s Planned Parenthood Federation, maintains that European Women should stop having babies for the next ten years:

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Women
  • America
  • Stop

• The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.

  

  Elie Wiesel

• I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Why

• London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.

  

  Emma Roberts
  • World
  • Great
  • Friend

• I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Mind
  • Dark
  • Child

• If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • You
  • Always

• I wouldn't say I'm against same-sex marriage. I believe in freedom and equality for all people. I believe that when it comes to gay marriage, that's a political and legal issue that has to be dealt with in that arena. I have privately held beliefs, but when it comes to that, it's properly placed in the political and legal arena.

  

  Bernice King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Political

• What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.

  

  Kenneth Branagh

• A tragedy, when a mature mind and a romantic heart are in the same body.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Body