Ameen Rihani Quotes

Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Someone

• I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Moving
  • Dog
  • Face

• It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Clothes

• I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Years
  • Three
  • Half

• There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's slightly scary.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Focus
  • Scary
  • Celebrity

• Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Years
  • Moment
  • Dead

• I hate wasting people's time.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Hate

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Human

• Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Food

• I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Head
  • Big
  • Big Head

• Hopefully, people will rediscover real country music. After all, it's in my blood.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• By thinking through the grilling process while still in the kitchen, you can easily gather all of the items that you might need and conveniently carry them to the outdoors area.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Thinking
  • Process
  • Kitchen

• Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

  

  Tacitus
  • Things
  • Believed
  • Greater

• Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• 'Alas! fair Rowena,' returned De Bracy, 'you are in presence of your captive, not your jailor; and it is from your fair eyes that De Bracy must receive that doom which you fondly expect from him.'

  

  Walter Scott
  • Eyes

• Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• For all of my career, I have believed that America has a responsibility to lead in the world. That's why I was one of only a few Democrats in the United States Senate to vote in support of the use of force to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.

  

  Al Gore
  • World
  • Why
  • America

• We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

  

  James Buchan
  • Long
  • School
  • Drama

• 'Party Up' is like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' crossed with 'House Party.' It's basically about this kid, my character, who's this smooth, intelligent kid who's petitioning to throw this big end-of-the-year-bash house party, and so he goes and manipulating different people and ruining lives. He somewhat has a selfish heart, but he's a nice guy.

  

  Elijah Kelley
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.

  

  Cary Grant
  • Gun
  • Prepared
  • Invitation

• Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Heart

• Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

  

  Ameen Rihani