Top 40 Farid's Quotes
#1. Farid had brought an invisible guest with him.
Fear.
Cornelia Funke
#4. Come you lost Atoms to your Centre draw,
And be the Eternal Mirror that you saw:
Rays that have wander'd into Darkness wide
Return and back into your Sun subsid
Farid Al-Din Attar
#5. Farid, you are keeping a hawk; don't expect her to lay eggs like a chicken.
Michael Gruber
#6. The ocean can be yours; why should you stop
Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew?
The secrets of the sun are yours, but you
Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#7. Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.
Russell Simmons
#9. When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#10. But i know a lot about the kind of men you mean. They're the same everywhere.
Cornelia Funke
#11. I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#12. My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.
Kamala Harris
#13. Were you indeed not blinded by the Curse Of Self-exile, that still grows worse and worse, Yourselves would know that, though you see him not, He is with you this Moment, on this Spot ...
Farid Al-Din Attar
#14. You have the colours of
Those jewels you so inordinately love,
And yet you seem -- like your excuses -- lame.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#15. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?
Farid Al-Din Attar
#16. My request is not for bliss of the Garden. I only desire to see You.
Ibn Al-Farid
#17. But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
Ibn Al-Farid
#18. I am alone; make me your single goal --
My presence is sufficient for your soul;
I am your God, your one necessity --
With every breath you breathe, remember Me.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#19. She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive.
Shirley Jackson
#20. Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?'
I thought about a humanities teacher I'd worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I'd worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.
Tucker Elliot
#21. Well, I think that we have to continue to fight for what we believe.
Roy Moore
#23. Risk models only have value if they are used effectively in combination with a limit management and control process.
Jawwad Farid
#24. If you will but aspire
You will attain to all that you desire.
Before an atom of such need the Sun
Seems dim and mirky by comparison.
It is life's strength, the wings by which we fly
Beyond the further reaches of the sky.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#25. The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#28. You don't have to give people fish everyday but instead you must give them the pole to learn how to fish themselves.
Pascal Bruckner
#29. A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#30. I must consider the organizer as more important than the discoverer.
Wolfgang Ostwald
#31. Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.
Molly Parker
#32. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#33. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#34. She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through ...
Cornelia Funke
#35. If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets
Farid Al-Din Attar
#36. Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.
Robin McKinley
#37. Let love lead your soul. Make it a place to retire to, a kind of monastery cave, a retreat for the deepest core of your being.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#38. Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."
Andre Dubus
#39. This summer had been about finding herself, and learning to accept love in its various forms
and to give love. - Quinn Reynolds
Molli Moran
#40. There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.
Terry Eagleton
