Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
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Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) Italian composer
Ho tante cose che ti voglio dire, o una sola, ma grande come il mare, come il mare profonda ed infinita...Sei il mio amore e tutta la mia vita!
Mimi
Act IV Sono andante?
La bohème (1896)
“Oh, you've got a gun? So, you want to pop that?”
Snoop Dogg (1971) American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor
"Drop It Like It's Hot" (2004), R&G: The Masterpiece (2004).
Will Smith (1968) American actor, film producer and rapper
Cf. LOOK Magazine 1957: Actor Walter Slezak's version of "keeping up with the Joneses": "Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like." p. 10 books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=-NERAQAAMAAJ&q=slezak. <br class="br">Misattributed
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Try Me, from Please Please Please (album) (1959)
Song lyrics
Claude Monet (1840–1926) French impressionist painter
Quote in a letter from Giverny to Gustave Geffroy, 23 November 1894; as cited in: P. Michael Doran (2001), Art Conversations with Cézanne, p. 3
1890 - 1900
Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
On Being, The Wisdom of Tenderness (transcript) http://www.onbeing.org/program/wisdom-tenderness/transcript/1369 Interview with Krista Tippett, December 24, 2009 <br class="br">From interviews and talks
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1960s, Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master (1961)
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
(2009) Independent News article 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html <br class="br">On Ponyo
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975) Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
Speaking to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi in 1955 during a debate on whether to adopt the One Unit scheme in Pakistan and divide the country into two provinces- East and West Pakistan. http://www.albd.org/autoalbd/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=44 <br class="br">Quote, Other
“I would like to shake hands with the white men, but I am afraid they do not want peace with us.”
Little Raven (Arapaho leader) (1810–1889) Southern Arapaho chief
As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 77
“She wants to go home, but nobody's home. It's where she lies, broken inside.”
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"Nobody's Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLfvdeInFg (2004)
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
From an interview with Marc Coiteux on Musique Plus, 1991-09-21, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Interviews (1989-1994), Video
“We wanted the best, but it turned out like always.”
Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938–2010) Russian diplomat
Obituary, The Economist, 6th November 2010 p. 107
John Roecker (1966) American film director
An Epic Interview with John Roecker, FilmJerk, www.filmjerk.com, Kristopher, Terrell, August 23, 2003 http://www.filmjerk.com/interviews/article.php?id_int=12,
Elliot Rodger (1991–2014) American spree killer
I ended up walking for two hours, and at the end of it I was crying to myself because I felt so sad.
My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 19, Longing
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Isn't that what it says?
Creation seminars (2003-2005), The dangers of evolution
“We do not want chaos in South Africa.”
P. W. Botha (1916–2006) South African prime minister
Explaining why cinemas were not open to all races, House of Assembly, April 21, 1983, as cited by Andrew Donaldson, Sunday Times, 5 November 2006
“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”
Sitting Bull (1831–1890) Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Context: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
Emma Watson (1990) British actress and model
The "Burke quote" she uses here is a common but disputed attribution.
UN Speech on the HeForShe campaign (2014)
Context: You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing speaking at the UN. And it’s a really good question. I've been asking myself the same thing. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better.
And having seen what I’ve seen — and given the chance — I feel it is my responsibility to say something. Statesman Edmund Burke said: “All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.”
In my nervousness for this speech and in my moments of doubt I’ve told myself firmly — if not me, who, if not now, when. If you have similar doubts when opportunities are presented to you I hope that those words might be helpful.
“There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying.”
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
As quoted in "The True Story of The Patton Prayer" by James H. O'Neill in Review of the News (6 October 1971) http://www.pattonhq.com/prayer.html <br class="br">Context: There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or thinking. Then you must have well-trained troops to carry it out: that's working. But between the plan and the operation there is always an unknown. That unknown spells defeat or victory, success or failure. It is the reaction of the actors to the ordeal when it actually comes. Some people call that getting the breaks; I call it God. God has His part, or margin in everything, That's where prayer comes in.
“It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.”
Aesop book The Ant and the Grasshopper
The Ant and the Grasshopper.
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness”
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist
1770s, Common Sense (1776)
Context: Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil.
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
As quoted in Literature of the American Indian (1973) by Thomas Edward Sanders and Walter W. Peek, p. 294
Context: My friend, I do not blame you for this. Had I listened to you this trouble would not have happened to me. I was not hostile to the white men. Sometimes my young men would attack the Indians who were their enemies and took their ponies. They did it in return. We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our tepees. We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on the reservation, where we were driven against our will. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to leave the reservation to hunt. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the winter, they destroyed our villages. The "Long Hair" [Custer] came in the same way. They say we massacred him, but he would have done the same thing to us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the last. Our first impulse was to escape with our squaws and papooses, but we were so hemmed in that we had to fight. After that I went up on the Tongue River with a few of my people and lived in peace. But the government would not let me alone. Finally, I came back to the Red Cloud Agency. Yet, I was not allowed to remain quiet. I was tired of fighting. I went to the Spotted Tail Agency and asked that chief and his agent to let me live there in peace. I came here with the agent [Lee] to talk with the Big White Chief but was not given a chance. They tried to confine me. I tried to escape, and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken.
Hermann Göring (1893–1946) German politician and military leader
In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp <br class="br">Nuremberg Diary (1947) <br class="br">Context: p> Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.</p
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
On growing up in a small town, as quoted in Who was Ronald Reagan? (2004) by Joyce Milton, p. 9
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Context: You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2014, Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative Town Hall (April 2014)
Context: The world has gotten smaller and no country is going to succeed if part of its population is put on the sidelines because they’re discriminated against. [... ] No society is going to succeed if half your population -- meaning women -- aren’t getting the same education and employment opportunities as men. So I think the key point for all of you, especially as young people, is you should embrace your culture. You should be proud of who you are and your background. And you should appreciate the differences in language and food. And how you worship God is going to be different, and those are things that you should be proud of. But it shouldn’t be a tool to look down on somebody else. It shouldn’t be a reason to discriminate. And you have to make sure that you are speaking out against that in your daily life, and as you emerge as leaders you should be on the side of politics that brings people together rather than drives them apart. That is the most important thing for this generation. And part of the way to do that is to be able to stand in other people’s shoes, see through their eyes. Almost every religion has within it the basic principle that I, as a Christian, understand from the teachings of Jesus. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Treat people the way you want to be treated. And if you’re not doing that and if society is not respecting that basic principle, then we’re going backwards instead of going forward. [... ] And when you see astronauts from Japan or from the United States or from Russia or others working together, and they’re looking down at this planet from a distance you realize we’re all on this little rock in the middle of space and the differences that seem so important to us from a distance dissolve into nothing. And so, we have to have that same perspective -- respecting everybody, treating everybody equally under the law. That has to be a principle that all of you uphold.
“I use the word nursing for want of a better.”
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Notes on Nursing (1860)
Context: I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet — all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
“If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed”
William H. McRaven (1955) United States admiral
University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70 <br class="br">Context: If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed... If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed, will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made, that you made. And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.
The quote is mistakenly attributed to the author
“Want to know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words.”
Kim Jong-un (1984) 3rd Supreme Leader of North Korea
Source: This is cannot be attributes to Kim Jong-un, this quote comes from movie The Interview (II) (2014)
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (1945) Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil
&ndash; during a speech in São Luís, the capital of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. After recognizing he cursed, he stated: "Of course I cursed. Tomorrow, commentators of the major newspapers will say that Lula cursed, but I'm aware that they curse more than I do everyday, and I'm aware of how the poor people of this country live. <br class="br"> "Quero tirar o povo da merda", diz Lula; watch http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/videocasts/ult10038u664689.shtml, at folha.uol.com, 10.12.2009
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (1955) King of Bhutan 1972–2006
Message during the international year of the child, 28 July 1979, quoted in The Talking Mountains (26 Oct 2015)
Jeff Foster (1980) Spiritual teacher
Source: https://www.facebook.com/LifeWithoutACentre/posts/1523252961105640
Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
"Sunisa Lee Says She's 'Going to Delete Twitter' So She Can Focus on Preparing for Beam Final" in People (1 August 2021) https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-sunisa-lee-going-to-delete-twitter-focus-preparing-beam-final/
Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
Source: "Sunisa Lee Says She's 'Going to Delete Twitter' So She Can Focus on Preparing for Beam Final" in People (1 August 2021) https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-sunisa-lee-going-to-delete-twitter-focus-preparing-beam-final/
Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
"Sunisa Lee, First Hmong American Olympic Gymnast, Talks Achieving Her Dream and Being an Inspiration" in People (29 July 2021) https://people.com/sports/tokyo-olympics-sunisa-lee-first-hmong-american-olympic-gymnast-achieving-her-dream/
“I just didn’t want to see myself fall back. I don’t want to disappoint my coaches or my parents.”
Sunisa Lee (2003) American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gold medalist
"You Can’t Stop Suni Lee" in Elle (29 July 2021) https://www.elle.com/culture/a36503849/suni-lee-olympics-gymnastics-tokyo/
Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961) Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
Fighters for National Liberation: Political Profiles https://archive.org/details/fightersfornatliberation/page/138/mode/2up V.G. Khorosebal , Central Books Ltd, 1984, ISBN 0714720542, p 144. Lumumba in August 1960 from the United States.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
Personal correspondence (1839), as quoted in Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971) by Konstantin Mochulski, as translated by Michael A. Minihan, p. 17
General
Daniel Larze (2005) Puerto Rican singer-songwriter (born 2005)
Source: https://www.npvmedia.ga/2022/02/daniel-2015.html
“I don’t want to believe, I want to know.”
Paulo Bitencourt (1966)
Source: Book “Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist”
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, A Day Without Rain (2000)
Source: da Pilgrim, n.° 9
T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
Vladimir Lenin book The State and Revolution
§ 3.4, Essential Works of Lenin (1966), pp. 307-308
Source: The State and Revolution (1917)
“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Source: Life Is Worth Living
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Source: Proudhon: What Is Property?
“if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
Ludwig von Mises book Bureaucracy
Source: Bureaucracy
“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Hate to sound sleazy,
but tease me,
I don't want it if it's that easy”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
A defense http://www.thelizlibrary.org/undelete/library/library005.html of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263 <br class="br">Variant: I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. <br class="br">Context: The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step with the cry that somebody was injuring the cause by the expression of some sentiments that differed with those held by the majority of mankind. The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.
“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," The New York Times (2000-11-05) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05oatest.html <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Variant: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
“I wanted to end the world, but I'll settle for ending yours.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sojourner Truth (1797–1883) African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist
As quoted in Sojourner Truth : A Self-made Woman (1974) by Victoria Ortiz
Variant: Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer
Variant: Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Source: Requiem for a Dream
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
“You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology
Response to a question from the audience during a meeting of the Eastern Science Fiction Association on (7 November 1948), as quoted in a 1994 affidavit by Sam Moskowitz. <br class="br">This statement is similar or identical to several statements http://www.bible.ca/scientology-1million-start-a-religion.htm Hubbard is reported to have made to various individuals or groups in the 1940s. Variants include: <br class="br">The incident is stamped indelibly in my mind because of one statement that Ron Hubbard made. What led him to say what he did I can't recall — but in so many words Hubbard said: "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is!" <br class="br">L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd A. Eshbach, in 1949; as quoted by Eshbach in his autobiography Over My Shoulder: Reflections On A Science Fiction Era (1983) ISBN 1-880418-11-8 . <br class="br">Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion! <br class="br">As reported to Mike Jittlov by Theodore Sturgeon as a statement Hubbard made while at the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society clubhouse in the 1940s. <br class="br">Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wanted to make a million dollars, the best way to do it would be start his own religion. <br class="br">As quoted in the Los Angeles Times (27 August 1978) <br class="br">Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. <br class="br">As quoted in the article "Scientology: Anatomy of a Frightening Cult" by Eugene H. Methvin. Reader's Digest (May 1980). <br class="br">I always knew he was exceedingly anxious to hit big money — he used to say he thought the best way to do it would be to start a cult. <br class="br">Sam Merwin, Editor of Thrilling Science Fiction magazine Winter of 1946-47; quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller <br class="br">Whenever he was talking about being hard up he often used to say that he thought the easiest way to make money would be to start a religion. <br class="br">Neison Himmel, briefly a roommate of Hubbard in Pasadena during the fall of 1945, in a 1986 interview, quoted in Bare-Faced Messiah, The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard (1987) by Russell Miller.
