Moauiyat Quotes

#1. The caliph Moauiyat asked Omr Ben Al-Aas the secret of his great political
skills: 'I never get involved in something without having first worked out my retreat; then again, I have never gone into a situation and immediately wanted to run straight out again,' came the answer.

Paulo Coelho

#2. Writers live in houses other people built.

Neil Gaiman

#3. I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.

David Letterman

#4. For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.

Margaret Keane

#5. Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.

Caroline Myss

#6. When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

Kate Fleetwood

#7. I can't prove this but i can't prove
you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.

Bob Hicok

#8. When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.

Mary Oliver

#9. Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first date."
"Well, then." I gave her a huge smile. "We're screwed.

Jennifer Lane

#10. I'm a sucker for packaging!

Chloe Sevigny

#11. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki

Muso Soseki

#12. Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

Melody Beattie

#13. He sure put things into words good.

S.E. Hinton

#14. I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

Anne Lamott

#15. I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.

Condoleezza Rice

#16. The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Edmund Burke