Avicenna Quotes
God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.Avicenna
Quotes to Explore
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
Walter Martin -
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
Natalia Tena -
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman -
After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
Fernando Alonso -
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
Sam Phillips -
My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
Orhan Pamuk
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
Naomi Weisstein -
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
Nathan Fillion -
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
Rabbi Hillel
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
Frances Wright -
I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
Daniel Barenboim -
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
Irvine Welsh -
I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
Daniel Dae Kim -
I've been racketeered on.
Randy Quaid -
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.
Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips -
Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.
Asa Larsson -
This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.
Wagner Moura -
It's pretty rare in jazz to have a full-on steady band.
Kurt Elling -
My hands are already full writing and directing, because that's a full time job. Actually, that's why I don't produce as well, as there's already enough producers.
David Twohy -
God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.
Avicenna