Khalil Gibran Quotes
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?Khalil Gibran
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler -
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth II -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt -
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
Maggie Stiefvater -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
Carl D. Anderson -
We're looking for people out there who have demonstrated that they are leaders, have track records of achievement, and want to be part of a force... of a much larger force of determined people who want to bring about, ultimately, institutional change.
Wendy Kopp -
I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
Ian Mckellen -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
Karl Liebknecht -
The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
Frances Beinecke -
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
E. F. Benson -
When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
Aaron Sorkin -
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.
Barbara Windsor -
'Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes very significant ways. There are many university research projects, proof of concept publisher demos, and new platform test beds that have leveraged the code. Free software that people value adds wealth to the world.'
John Carmack
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My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well.
Alice McDermott -
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
Felix Dennis -
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil Gibran