#ran

Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. ↗

— Edward Fitzgerald

#darkness #discover #door #must #myriads

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#back #first #first thing #granted #i

...The Qur'an cannot be translated. ...The book is here rendered almost literally and every effort has been made to choose befitting language. But the result is not the Glorious Qur'an, that inimitable symphony, the very sounds of which move men to tears and ecstasy. It is only an attempt to present the meaning of the Qur'an-and peradventure something of the charm in English. It can never take the place of the Qur'an in Arabic, nor is it meant to do so... ↗

— Marmaduke W. Pickthall

#kor-an #koran #qur-an #quran #religion

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world. ↗

— Sam Elliott

#grant #hugh #main #man #number

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#because #belong #days #few #get

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#children #degree #frankly #goddamn #got

When I finish a film, I like to drastically change my appearance. I get sick of looking at the same thing in the mirror for months at a time. So when a film's over, I'll do something like shave my head. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#change #drastically #film #finish #get

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#grandfather #grew #i #kitchen #mostly

My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cook #create #creativity #find #flavors

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#great #great deal #hamas #indonesia #israel