Ameen Rihani Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PurposeValueAlwaysWithoutWorking

Donald Trump is a lost soul wandering this Earth. He's been led down the Willy Loman path and believes his own hype. He's serving his little self and his little ego; otherwise, why would he need to overcompensate so much?

Andrew Garfield

PathSoulEgoSelfDownEarth

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

Andrae Crouch

LoveMusicWalkDieDoingPlan

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Steven Pinker

TodayChristianPartyEnemyStrange

Probably from, like, 10 to 14 or 15, I would just listen to pop radio.

Sia

ListenRadioJustWouldPopLike

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

Mike Wallace

ManAmericaYouImagineMostToo

He who is brave is free.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

CourageBraveFreeWhoHe

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a character - a living breathing thing with personality and backstory. The way stories come to life, at least for me, is when these elements commune in relationship to one another.

Jason Reynolds

LifeCharacterRelationshipMoving

Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.

Don Lemon

MeBrainGaySameTakeBeing

I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.

David Thewlis

WorkMoneyPeopleSometimesIdea

Magic was always my favorite. I think Jordan was the best player ever, but Magic was my personal favorite.

Chauncey Billups

BestThinkMagicPersonalAlways

Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of course she was an influence.

Claire Denis

GoodFriendMotherHeroInfluence

The idea that there could be other universes out there is really one that stretches the mind in a great way.

Brian Greene

GreatMindWayOutIdeaUniverses

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