Khalil Gibran Quotes

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran

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• People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
  • America
  • City

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Attention
  • Band
  • Enough

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Many
  • Other
  • Edison

• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Strong
  • Change
  • Me

• When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Future

• I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Trying
  • Moment
  • Start

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Me
  • Special

• Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

  

  Joseph Barbera

• I think the harder you work, the more luck you have.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • Work
  • Luck

• Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • American

• In the year of 1957, I experienced, by the grace of God, a spiritual awakening, which was to lead me to a richer, fuller, more productive life.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Life
  • God
  • Spiritual

• Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Attitude