Ameen Rihani Quotes

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

Ameen Rihani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: lebanese
  • Birth: November 24, 1876 - September 13, 1940

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My father worked in Chrysler's drafting department and used to bring home tracing paper, No. 2 pencils, and masking tape from the office. With these, I used to trace off drawings from the 'Superman' and 'Batman' comics and put them up on my bedroom walls.

Jim Starlin

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Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

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People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.

Jerome Corsi

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Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.

John Clare

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My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.

Robert Pattinson

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The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

Angela Merkel

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Russia's first major intervention began in 1768, when Catherine the Great went to war with the Ottomans, and Count Alexei Orlov, the brother of her lover Grigory, sailed the Baltic fleet through the Strait of Gibraltar to rally rebellions in the Mediterranean.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

Lucinda Williams

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Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Ciara

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Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

Win Butler

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My style was always intuitive. I never used to believe in working on your body. Anything that smacked of vanity to me was bad for your acting, but I learned that wasn't true.

Liev Schreiber

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