Khalil Gibran Quotes

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Khalil Gibran

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• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Happy
  • Easy
  • Own

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Same
  • Privacy
  • E-mail

• As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Job
  • Plant
  • Grateful

• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Depressing

• I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • True
  • Always
  • Professional

• Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Always

• As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • China
  • Peaceful

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Me
  • Tells

• If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Find

• Every actor fears unemployment – even me.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Actor
  • Fears

• Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Feelings
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• The greatest shoemaker in England for many, many decades; he used to be the royal shoe-maker for the Queen Mother. This is where I learnt my trade.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Greatest
  • Queen

• I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my grandpa when he was a prisoner of war, while my nana, Mary, was a Land Girl, then a Wren. They were so independent, resilient and glamorous.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Up
  • War
  • Girl

• Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Question
  • Value
  • Humility

• I took acting classes in college, and once I graduated, I decided to give acting a shot when I couldn't really think of anything else to do. It took me a couple of years to get an agent, and my first big break was The Fanelli Boys, which was a sitcom on NBC. Then I did a few television movies.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • College
  • Couple

• People have to respect intellectual property.

  

  Coco Lee
  • People
  • Respect

• Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

  

  James P. Gorman

• I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Art
  • Science
  • Pride

• Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.

  

  Farkas Bolyai
  • Happiness
  • Lifetime
  • Attempt

• The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly.

  

  John Sherman Cooper
  • People
  • Question
  • Service

• I'm a very ritualistic person. I have to wash my face twice, and on the second wash before I rinse, I brush my teeth, then I rinse, then I floss, then I put on moisturizer. I'm ritualistic. Jewishness is very ritualistic.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Persons
  • Faces
  • Teeth

• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  

  Khalil Gibran