Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.Naguib Mahfouz
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. Ron Hubbard -
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
Larry MacPhail -
Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
Rand Beers -
If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
Jack Ma -
There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
Lady Gaga
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
Maelle Gavet -
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
La'Porsha Renae -
I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.
Rachel Joyce -
Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
Orison Swett Marden -
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
Daniel Bryan -
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
Taylor Negron
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson -
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan -
Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
Gary Ross -
I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
Hannah Cowley -
There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
D. L. Hughley
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'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'
Alastair Reynolds -
There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.
Jane Welsh Carlyle -
He's had a lovely career for the talent he's got.
David Pleat -
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
Laura Linney -
I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
Angela Davis -
For the first time in my life, I felt that a wave, a justice was sweeping away a deep-seated decay without any indulgence. I dearly wished that it would keep going without hesitation or deviation, in a spirit of purity forever.
Naguib Mahfouz