Khalil Gibran Quotes

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran

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• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Change

• There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Today
  • Way
  • Understand

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• I had to deal with being somewhat of an outcast because it's not socially acceptable to be a struggling musician. There have been times where I've felt sorry for the person I was dating. I felt she deserved better.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • She
  • Better
  • Sorry

• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Touch

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• I don't think men like a bad girl. Well, I haven't had a date in a year so I'm obviously doing something wrong. It's not that my standards are too high, I haven't even been asked out in a year. I have no standards, anyone, please!

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Men
  • Bad
  • High

• I want the people of the Philippines to be happy, even if they have nothing.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Team
  • Leadership
  • Fight

• I'm not a Trump fan. I don't think he should be the nominee.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Think
  • Should
  • Trump

• Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

  

  Sally Field
  • History
  • Small
  • Year

• Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • People
  • Truth
  • Understand

• She was a genius, my mother.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • She
  • Mother
  • Genius

• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Luck
  • Crush

• Plainly said, he was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn’t realize that once a noose is tied, it will fit one neck as easily as another.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Giving

• Quoyle, you got any maritime connections?' 'My grandfather was a sealer.' 'Jesus. You always come out at me out of left field.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Jesus

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Society
  • Strong

• I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.

  

  Angus Buchan
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Devil

• Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Stop

• Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Always
  • Hide
  • Notice

• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

  

  Khalil Gibran