Ephrem the Syrian Quotes

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

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• I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Struggle
  • Chaos

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

  

  C. Day Lewis
  • Write
  • Understand
  • Order

• Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • World
  • Kind
  • Play

• My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Saying
  • Oil

• Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Cheat

• They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Great
  • History
  • Game

• I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Career

• When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Business
  • Today
  • Fear

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

  

  Edward Gibbon

• Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Kitchen

• Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Remember
  • Balance
  • Animal

• My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Acceptance

• Dear God, I do not ask for health or wealth. People ask you so often that you can't have any left. Give me, God, what else you have. Give me what no-one else asks for. Amen.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • God
  • Health

• You mustn't smile when you lose. You have to be sad like other people. You have to win every game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Game
  • Sad

• 'Dead Aid' is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Growth
  • Poverty
  • Africa

• I've always been a little bit cautious about what projects I step into. I don't mean to be dramatic, but I feel that every single thing you do in life, you give a piece of your soul, and I want to be responsible with that.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Single

• Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Might

• Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

  

  Ephrem the Syrian
  • Help
  • Eyes
  • Beauty