Khalil Gibran Quotes

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Khalil Gibran

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• Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Involved
  • Gym Class

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Past
  • Islam
  • Percent

• When people say all politicians are the same, ask yourself if Obama was the same as Bush, if Francois Hollande is the same as Sarkozy. They are not. They are human beings with different views and different visions for the world.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Elves are cool, man.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Elves

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Know

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • God
  • Writing
  • Why

• All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Touching
  • Originally

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • High
  • Success

• I'm a child of the Disney Renaissance, so the new classics are near and dear. I suppose this is a legend more than a fairy tale, but 'Mulan' is easily my favorite. Not only is it a fun, action-packed, beautiful movie, but it's so important for young girls to have.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Fun

• I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Guy
  • White

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Friends
  • White
  • Hip Hop

• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Same

• I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.

  

  Kaitlin Austra Stelmanis Austra
  • Song
  • Hate
  • Boring

• I used to be on 'The Bold & The Beautiful'; that character, Bridget Forrester, is dear to my heart, and of course, the reruns of that you can see.

  

  Ashley Jones
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is compared to water, to change my heart. I will begin to study it, and try to become a scholar of The Light.

  

  Rabbi Akiva
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Water

• I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • People
  • Sports
  • Vision

• They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Vision