Khalil Gibran Quotes

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Khalil Gibran

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• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Up
  • Night
  • Running

• Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Walks

• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• I think I am feeling comfortable in Bollywood more than in Hollywood because I have spent more time here now and I am understanding a lot of things. I am feeling pretty good here. I really don't plan on running off anywhere.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Running
  • Understanding
  • Hollywood

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• I knew very little or nothing about the Olympics. Having qualified was itself a big achievement for me, and then being there was quite overwhelming. Although I lost in the opening round, but the fact that I fought well was enough for me to take away from Athens.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Enough
  • Achievement
  • Knew

• Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Water
  • Individual
  • Issue

• Stumbling is not falling.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Falling
  • Stumbling

• Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• In many ways, I feel like having the opportunity to play Gogol in 'The Namesake' really was my dream role in many ways.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Party
  • Politics

• I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

  

  Jeff Beck
  • People
  • Why

• We can solve many problems thousands of times faster than natural selection. Now, by creating the means to execute those simulations at much higher speeds, we are entering a regime as radically different from our human past as we humans are from the lower animals.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Different
  • Past

• Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.

  

  Warren Gatland
  • Balls
  • Line
  • Put

• The only way we come back as a country is to build the domestic economy.

  

  Gerald Celente
  • Country
  • Economy
  • Build

• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

  

  Khalil Gibran