"How many lessons there are and how little they are taken"

-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Wisdom Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Taken Quotes

“There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'”
“In the computer industry, you've got an interdisciplinary team of people who can come together, attack the problem, and work in a collaborative style. You knock down one problem after another, cobble things together, and then hopefully turn the crank at some point.”
“Doing a series, every week you work with a new star.”

Source : "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
“I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.”

Source : "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
“It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.”
“I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.”
“The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call.”

Source : Edith Stein (2012). “Edith Stein Essays on Woman”, p.86, ICS Publications

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