Said Nursi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been a partier.
-
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
-
You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
-
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
-
All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
-
I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
-
'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
-
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
-
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
-
Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
-
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
-
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
-
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
-
I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
-
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
-
I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
-
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
-
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
-
It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.
-
The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
