Khalil Gibran Quotes

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

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• We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • School
  • Kids
  • Hope

• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
  • You
  • Like
  • Without

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Deep
  • Beauty
  • Skin

• Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.

  

  Rachel Shelley
  • Helping
  • Doors
  • Opening

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Support

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Love
  • Poetry
  • Show

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Myself
  • Same
  • Horse

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Game
  • Star
  • Winning

• The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.

  

  Yehuda Levi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Quality

• As for me, my literary theory, like my politics, is based chiefly upon one main idea, to wit, the idea of freedom. I am, in brief, a libertarian of the most extreme variety, and know of no human right that is one-tenth as valuable as the simple right to utter what seems (at the moment) to be the truth

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Simple

• A thrint was master over every intelligent beast. This was the Powergiver’s primal decree, made before he made the stars. So said all of the twelve thrintun religions, though they fought insanely over other matters.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Intelligent

• Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • God
  • Believe
  • Hope

• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Truth
  • Spring
  • Desert