Ameen Rihani Quotes
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.
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I actually started off - believe it or not - doing drag. I travelled the world because I was a completely off-the-wall drag artist.
Kristian Nairn
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose educational system had its roots dating back to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
George Andrew Olah
I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
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I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.
Dan Castellaneta
To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
