Abu Ala Al-ma'arri Quotes & Sayings

if you're like most other humans on the planet, you've already spent a lot of time and effort trying to have 'good' feelings instead of 'bad' ones - and you've probably found that as long as you're not too distressed, you can, to some degree, pull it off. But you've probably also discovered that as your level of distress increases, your ability to control your feelings progressively lessens. Sadly, — Russ Harris

Portraying Mozart is a scary task. Whenever I'm asked to portray actual historic figures, it comes with extra accountability. Not just to your director and playwright, but to the man himself and the beloved persona that the public forms. — Rob McClure

Moscow ... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! what store of riches it imparts! — Alexander Pushkin

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things. — Jason Kilar

If he's not calling, he probably doesn't like you. — La La Anthony

I've had trouble with criticism, I guess. It's hard to know what role criticism plays in either encouraging poets or in getting other people to read them. — Kenneth Koch

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it. — Tony Robbins

To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget ... I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be. — Gary Cole

No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

You might be fearless," he whispered. "You might be independent, but on the inside you're just as in need of love as the rest of us. — Jill Shalvis

But the memory of past sorrow
is it not present joy? — Edgar Allan Poe

The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being. — Ram Dass

This phenomenon, of seeing the emperor's garments although he is naked, has existed for many millennia. This is how even the stupidest people were able to become regents. They proclaimed their belief that they were wise - and it was, for their people, usually already too late by the time the ruler had to prove his wisdom. — Erich Fromm

Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously! — Patrick Stump

I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people. — Frank Black