Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Way
  • Criticism
  • Legitimate

• I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Live
  • Three
  • Household

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Ears

• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Yoga
  • Healthy
  • Run

• Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Prison
  • Superstar

• I'm a runner first before anything else.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • First
  • Anything
  • Before

• The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Energy
  • Players

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Mind
  • Doing
  • Start

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • School
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• There are a lot of ways to mispronounce my name. That is the least common … I checked with my mother. In 50 years no one's ever called her 'Elsie Fag'.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Mother

• Y seguiré eliminando las palabras malas que puse en mi todo, aunque mi todo se quede sin palabras.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • She
  • Nature
  • Death

• You can talk good ideas out of existence.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • Ideas
  • Existence

• I always understood my ancestry, like that of so many others in the Gulf Coast, to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans - but in what proportion, and what might that proportion tell me about who I thought I was?

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Men
  • Free
  • Color

• To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Good
  • Action