Khayyam Rubaiyat Quotes & Sayings

Our Heavenly Father does not usually cause us to seek the Savior till He has whipped us clean out of all our confidence; He cannot make us in earnest after Heaven till He has made us feel something of the intolerable tortures of an aching conscience, which is a foretaste of hell. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Tis all a Chequer-board of nights and days
Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates,and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays. — Omar Khayyam

A concern that produces its own raw materials, and works them up through the various processes until it delivers the manufactured product in the domestic or foreign market, can work on a narrower margin all around, and yet do full justice to its stockholders and employees. — Charles M. Schwab

Love is a bridge over the sea of change. Do not build a house on it. — Sathya Sai Baba

God doesn't know things. He is things. — D.H. Lawrence

Mahlia just waited. She was good at that. When you were a castoff, it didn't do any good trying to talk to people, but sometimes, if you just kind of waited them out, people would get uncomfortable and feel like they had to do something. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done. — Brandon Sanderson

RULE #13: Don't bear the weight alone when you can dump some on a friend. — Carole Radziwill

Concrete meets face. Face loses. — Cherise Sinclair

Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. — John Updike

Kenji glances over his shoulder at me, but doesn't have the chance to turn all the way around before I crash into him, grabbing his hands and squeezing them in my own. "Don't let go," I tell him, eyes filling fast with tears. "Don't let go. You don't have to let go. — Tahereh Mafi

People ... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.' — Chris Farley

If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love. — Idries Shah

Of all my seeking this is all my gain:
No agony of any mortal brain
Shall wrest the secret of the life of man;
The Search has taught me that the Search is vain. — Omar Khayyam