Ameen Rihani Quotes

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

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• I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Best
  • Son
  • Doing

• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
  • Angry
  • Perception

• I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Kids
  • Marriage

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• In nerve-free multicellular organisms, the relationships of the cells to each other can only be of a chemical nature. In multicellular organisms with nerve systems, the nerve cells only represent cells like any others, but they have extensions suited to the purpose which they serve, namely the nerves.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Nature
  • Free
  • Purpose

• There is no suspense in inevitability.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Suspense
  • Inevitability

• Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Life
  • World
  • Long

• I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Wedding
  • Three
  • Vegas

• In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Proud
  • Stupid

• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thought

• Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Unknown
  • Most
  • Rather

• Women are always beautiful.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Always

• You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Movies

• There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Support
  • Nobody

• Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

  

  R. Kelly
  • Kids
  • Alien
  • Felt

• I wanted a doula because it's my first baby, and I want to be able to call her when I'm going into labor so she can come over and help us go through the early stage.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • She
  • Help
  • Baby

• Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Drug

• Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Gravity
  • No Idea
  • Drift

• Like many men, I can never find anything that I’m looking for, even when I’m actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Great
  • Men
  • Dirty

• If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

  

  Johnny Iuzzini
  • Heart
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

  

  Ameen Rihani