Khayyam Poet Quotes & Sayings

Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy. — Jan Schakowsky

World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human compassion. — Dalai Lama XIV

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them? — George Carlin

I'm not looking thru you Kami, I'm looking into you. I'm standing here, wondering how the hell a girl so beautiful could hold so much sadness in her gorgeous green eyes. And I'm asking myself why I want- no- why I NEED to know what's made her so sad. And what I can do to take away every ounce of that sadness. I need to know what it will take for you to let me in, so I can do just that. — S.L. Jennings

There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice. — Patty Berg

If he's not going to apologize, I'm not going to be more than barely civil. I realize he is a boy and predisposed to abhor admitting he's wrong. He, however, has given me no reason to stick my neck out. — Tera Lynn Childs

Wake! For the Sun, who scatter'd into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
Drives Night along with them from Heav'n,
and strikes
The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light — Omar Khayyam

If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart. — Ruth Asawa

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. — Samuel Rutherford

If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing. — Stephen Colbert