Top 85 Ameen Quotes
#1. Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially with the intention of supplication.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#2. A genial and cultured Arab, Ameen Rihani, whose English is perfect and whose eloquence is astounding. He will discuss with equal eagerness and knowledge the merits of Picasso or Van Gogh, or the Zionist question, or the British achievements in Arabia.
Kenneth Williams
#3. Let's be honest, Yaz - the majority of people here have stinky personalities," I stated, biting into my apple.
"Ameen to that!
Aishabella Sheikh
#4. The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.
Ameen Rihani
#5. All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.
Ameen Rihani
#6. Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.
Ameen Rihani
#7. Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Ameen Rihani
#8. The will is the spirit of perseverance, and perseverance holds clear success.
Ameen Rihani
#9. I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.
Aml Ameen
#10. I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.
Ameen Rihani
#11. We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
Aml Ameen
#12. We have to dissolve all the denominations in order to form from them the greater denomination of the homeland.
Ameen Rihani
#13. My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.
Ameen Rihani
#14. And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.
Ameen Rihani
#15. I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.
Shahad Ameen
#16. Society may be likened to a rod, which only a just government can balance properly.
Ameen Rihani
#17. Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie film industy is a great opportunity that I'm trying to seize.
Aml Ameen
#18. True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.
Ameen Rihani
#19. Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
Ameen Rihani
#20. Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
Ameen Rihani
#21. Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.
Ameen Rihani
#22. We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.
Ameen Rihani
#23. Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.
Ameen Rihani
#24. An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the pyramids are great. But see, the desert is greater than the pyramids, and the sea is greater than the desert, and the heavens are greater than the sea.
Ameen Rihani
#25. Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.
Ameen Rihani
#26. To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.
Ameen Rihani
#27. People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more magical realist than fantasy. I believe in the fantasies within each of our realities, i.e., I portray very relatable human issues in a very realistic tone, yet in a magical setting.
Shahad Ameen
#28. Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
Ameen Rihani
#29. The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.
Ameen Rihani
#30. Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.
Ameen Rihani
#31. Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.
Ameen Rihani
#32. In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.
Ameen Rihani
#33. The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.
Ameen Rihani
#34. If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.
Ameen Rihani
#35. I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.
Ameen Rihani
#36. Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.
Ameen Rihani
#37. What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
Ameen Rihani
#38. I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
Ameen Rihani
#39. I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.
Ameen Rihani
#40. When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.
Ameen Rihani
#41. When we go deep enough or high enough, we meet. It is only on the surface that we differ and sometimes clash. True, we do not always find our way to the depth or the height, or we do not take the trouble to do so.
Ameen Rihani
#42. We must strive to form a comprehensive sublime nationalism whose first principal is national geographic unity and must strengthen this unity with deeds not with words.
Ameen Rihani
#43. No boundaries exist in our breast: We are free .
Ameen Rihani
#44. Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.
Ameen Rihani
#45. Whether you were Moslem, Christian, Druze, or Israeli, remember, God protect thee, that religious fanaticism for political goals or political fanaticism for religious purposes is the worst kind of fanaticism.
Ameen Rihani
#46. Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
Ameen Rihani
#47. Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Ameen Rihani
#48. The duties I ask of myself are obligatory for absolutely every individual, everywhere. Moreover, just as I recognize these rights and duties of others, I would like the others to recognize them form me as well.
Ameen Rihani
#49. I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes
Ameen Rihani
#50. Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.
Ameen Rihani
#51. In the Lakes of Light, Love and Will, I would baptize all mankind.
Ameen Rihani
#52. Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.
Ameen Rihani
#53. I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.
Ameen Rihani
#54. Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.
Ameen Rihani
#55. Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
Ameen Rihani
#56. Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.
Ameen Rihani
#57. If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.
Ameen Rihani
#58. Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
Ameen Rihani
#59. I state the threefold purpose of my travels in Arabia: to see the country, to write about it and to be of some service to its people and their cause - that is what brought me from beyond the seas, from America.
Ameen Rihani
#60. Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Ameen Rihani
#61. In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.
Aml Ameen
#63. However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.
Ameen Rihani
#64. Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.
Ameen Rihani
#65. True up-bringing is restricted to two types of welfare; the welfare of the body and that of the mind.
Ameen Rihani
#66. At this moment, my soul is in Lebanon, my heart in Paris, and my body in New York.
Ameen Rihani
#67. Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my films have dealt with women, I do have work that deals with other matters, and I'm always open to different stories regardless of gender.
Shahad Ameen
#68. You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
Ameen Rihani
#69. A lot of British actors will look at America as such a land of opportunity. In England, there's such a small pool of working actors of color. There's such a small amount of work that is actually produced in the first place.
Aml Ameen
#70. Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
Ameen Rihani
#71. Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
Ameen Rihani
#72. The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.
Ameen Rihani
#73. My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.
Ameen Rihani
#74. An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
Ameen Rihani
#75. Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.
Aml Ameen
#76. I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.
Ameen Rihani
#77. A poet is a poet, whether he rides in a Ford or on a donkey; a sage is a sage, whether he plays golf in New Jersey or bathes in the Ganges, or prays in the desert; and a fool is a fool, whether he be a maharaja or a president of a post-war republic.
Ameen Rihani
#78. The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.
Ameen Rihani
#79. We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.
Ameen Rihani
#80. Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.
Ameen Rihani
#81. They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.
Aml Ameen
#82. There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.
Ameen Rihani
#83. Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.
Ameen Rihani
#84. The broader and higher aspects of life are international ... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.
Ameen Rihani
#85. In England, there's a lot of people producing their own work and becoming producers and filmmakers, so they're not constantly waiting around. It can be very scarce for work, so it's important to create the work.
Aml Ameen
