Quotes About Hakim

#1. Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Vince Flynn

#2. As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

Harvey Weinstein

#3. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But

Harper Bliss

#4. said Sloane, 'before Hakim Bishara buys the shares, giving

Jeffrey Archer

#5. Avoid trouble. This was the operating principle of Abdul Hakim Husain, an idea so fiercely held that it seemed imprinted on his physical form.

Katherine Boo

#6. He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.

Khaled Hosseini

#8. At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

Idries Shah

#9. Mummies are dehydrated & they long for the blood of living words.

Hakim Bey

#10. One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.

Hakim Bey

#11. There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#12. A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

Hakim Bey

#13. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Imani Hakim

#14. The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

Hakim Bey

#15. The last possible deed is that which defines perception itself, an invisible golden chord that connects us: illegal dancing in the courthouse corridors.

Hakim Bey

#16. I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.

Imani Hakim

#17. When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#18. I maintain that (as usual) many sides exist to this issue rather than only two. Two-sided issues (creationism vs darwinism, "choice" vs "pro-life," etc.) are all without exception delusions, spectacular lies.

Hakim Bey

#19. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...

Hakim Bey

#20. Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

Hakim Bey

#21. Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy.

Hakim Bey

#22. Turn to yourselves rather than to your Gods or to your idols. Find what hides in yourselves; bring it to the light; show yourselves!

Hakim Bey

#23. Some people like danger and adventure, some like to be free of civilization, and some like to live by their wits. It was those special people who headed west.

Joy Hakim

#24. When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty - what difference does it make what your decisions are?

Idries Shah

#25. Women are not difficult; but they are difficult to understand.
Men are not easy; but they are easy to understand.

Abdal Hakim Murad

#26. Life's too short to drink cheap wine...

Cliff Hakim

#27. To say that 'I will not be free till all humans (or all sentient creatures) are free' is simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define ourselves as losers.

Hakim Bey

#28. Only drugs make you feel as good as people in TV ads appear to be.

Hakim Bey

#29. I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Imani Hakim

#30. Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?

Joy Hakim

#31. Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy.

Abdal Hakim Murad

#32. If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

Hakim Ibn Hizam

#33. The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real
but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

Hakim Bey

#34. True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#35. Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

Hakim Bey

#36. Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself
Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim

#37. Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness ... against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

Hakim Bey

#38. My new favorite quote is, Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

Joy Hakim

#39. If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)

Hakim

#40. I owe my success to my two families. If my father hadn't been willing to make sacrifices for me, I would have never won the role on 'Everybody Hates Chris'. I like working with my television family, too. We have a lot of love for each other.

Imani Hakim

#41. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water

Hakim Bey

#42. Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.

Hakim Bey

#43. What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#44. The 'Islamic State', that strange miscegenation of Medina with Westphalia, is always in mortal danger of linking the moral austerity of monotheism with the repressive and supervisor powers of the modern nation state.

Abdal Hakim Murad

#45. If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

Hakim Bey

#46. I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Imani Hakim

#47. Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

Hakim Bey

#48. In short, it occurred to me that perhaps the only possible avant garde is the avant garden.

Hakim Bey

#49. There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.

Hakim Bey

#50. A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

Hakim

#51. Words belong to those who use them only till someone else steals them back.

Hakim Bey