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“When I look out the window at my backyard, I can't think of anything interesting to ask. I mean, it's green, it's growing-but nothing occurs to me that any concentrated effort of thought could possibly enlighten. Whereas in economic, statistical, or mathematical kinds of things, I can think lots of questions.”

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

“In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation”

Men Mind Two Remember Belief Virtue Creation Humility Balance Holy Window Islam Intellect Prophet Islamic Contradiction Barriers Folds Static Endeavour Holy Prophet

Author:Aga Khan IV

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.”

Ifs Giving Believe Hard Wisdom Leadership Justice History Prove Window Strategy Ideology Radical Believe In Yourself Civility Disobedience Civil Disobedience Proving Yourself

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“The line is "So we beat on, boats against the current, born back ceaselessly into the past." We've interpreted it as the meaning of us [when we] went against the current, against the grain and did what felt natural to us...regardless of what we thought we were supposed to be doing. We threw all of that out the window. We existed how we wanted to.”

Wanted Past Felt Born Natural Lines Beats Window Currents Boat Supposed To Be Grain

Author:Chrissy Costanza

“It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.”

Soul Stories Eye Faces Worry Window Who You Are Your Face Twisted Ageing True Story Window To The Soul

Author:Naomie Harris

“How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.”

Ifs Humans Doe Light House Love Is Doors Window

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.”

Whole School Purpose Turns Education Learning Wall Window Mirrors Metaphor Educational Mathematical Classroom Graduation Educator Education System Self Education Great Education Good Education Teaching And Learning Education And Teachers Columnists Schools And Education Great Educational Teaching And Education Teaching Education Teacher Student School Life Children Learning Inspirational Education Formal Education Children Education High School Graduation Students And Education Inspirational Graduation Student Learning Children And Education Value Of Education Purpose Of Education Graduation Day Free Education Inspiring Education Teaching Students School Years Early Education First Day Of School What Is Education Adult Education Great Schools School Graduation Schools And Teachers Academic Education Cool Graduation Investment In Education Compulsory Education Graduating Seniors Inspirational School Educational Technology Classes In School

Book:Pieces of Eight Pa

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“What makes American Elf so good is that it's incredibly personal and it runs the full spectrum from super-sickening sweetness to gut-wrenching terror and sorrow. It's a funny and powerful window into a real person's mind.”

Mind Persons Real Running Powerful Sorrow Window Terror Guts Sweetness Spectrum Real Person

Author:Tony Millionaire

“A beautiful woman peers out her window, as full of envy as the harridan who peers up at her from the street.”

Beautiful Streets Window Envy Peers Beautiful Women

Author:Mason Cooley

“Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view.”

“I have seen many people, who while you are speaking to them, instead, of looking at, and attending to you, fix their eyes upon the ceiling, or some other part of the room, look out of the window, play with a dog, twirl their snuff-box, or pick their nose. Nothing discovers a little, futile, frivolous mind more than this, and nothing is so offensively ill-bred.”

People Mind Looks Littles Play Eye Rooms Dog Picks Window Ill Boxes Manners Noses Etiquette Attending Frivolous Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

Littles Book Views Known Four Window Village County Carriages Luxurious Welsh High Road Picturesque Small Villages

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.”

Book Father House Talking Morning Window Sat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.”

Looks Art Helping Wish Objects Window Sells Stores Devotional

Author:W. H. Auden

“A certain ultra-dignified gentleman of unusual prominence carried himself so stiffly that nobody felt free to call him by his first name. He quarreled with a friend of earlier days and from then on the two never spoke. The day the friend died an associate found the ultra-dignified gentleman staring through the window. When he came out of his reverie, he soliloquized with a sigh, ""He was the last to call me John."" Is any man really entitled to regard himself a success who has failed to inspire at least a goodly number of fellow mortals to greet him by his first name?”

“Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.”

World Littles Wish Advice Judging Flower Garden Window Plant Patterns Boxes Do Not Judge

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.”

Ifs Window Bills Investing Gates

Author:Chris Rock

“Ah! happy is the man whose early lot Hath made him master of a furnish'd cot; Who trains the vine that round his window grows, And after setting sun his garden hoes; Whose wattled pails his own enclosure shield, Who toils not daily in another's field.”

Men Made Home Grows Women Sun Fields He Man Masters Garden Window Train Rounds Setting Settings Toil Shields Vines Hoe Enclosure

Author:Joanna Baillie

“An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.”

Thinking Home Eye House Gone Window Old Houses

Book:Anne of Avonlea

Source: Anne of Avonlea

“Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.”

Looks Heart May House Window Lust Guests

Author:Billie Holiday

“The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace”

People States Left Millions Greater Grew Window Died Greed Hunger Riches Visible Royal Palaces Emperor Cemetery Treasurer Royal Palaces

Author:Haile Selassie

“You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.”

Way Children School Education Class Window Our Children Your Children Shops Latin Educate Shop Windows

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“When you can't smoke, if you stand and stare out of the window on your own, you're an antisocial, friendless idiot. If you stand and stare out of the window on your own with a cigarette, you're a philosopher.”

Ifs Inspiration Motivation Window Philosopher Smoke Idiot Staring Cigarette Antisocial Friendless

Author:Rory Sutherland

“Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.”

Thinking Kind Guy Simple Silence Wonder Flower One Day Appreciate Window Take Time Skyscraper

Author:Douchan Gersi

“We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.”

Needs Loses Space Creative Window Track Outlets Creative Outlets

Author:Zoketsu Norman Fischer

“Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching kids right from wrong, making sure they get a great education so they can be a success in life.”

Should Has Beens Home Kids Values Parent Moral Christianity Teaching Window Thrown Success In Life Great Education Moral Values Teaching Kids Home Teaching

Author:Albert Belle

“I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.”

“I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.”

Felt Environment Judgment Window Scientist Exploring

Author:Charles Petzold

“have you ever noticed how a man orders food at a fast-food drive-through window? ... men have an innate desire to be cute while placing their order through the drive-through microphone. It's as if they believe the invisible mike on the plastic menu screen is actually connected to a standup comedy stage somewhere in the recesses of the restaurant.”

Ifs Men Believe Desire Order Comedy Stage Window Connected Screens Invisible Cute Restaurants Plastic Innate Mike Fast Food Microphones Menus Recess

Book:Marriage 911

Source: Marriage 911

“The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils.”

Humans Two Real Suffering Evil Term Conditions Window Artistic Boredom Tolerable Pendulums

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“Microsoft looks at new ideas, they don't evaluate whether the idea will move the industry forward, they ask, 'how will it help us sell more copies of Windows?”

Looks Ideas Helping Moving Asks Industry Window Sells Copies New Ideas Microsoft Evaluate

Author:Bill Gates

“It is a source of happiness to see the elderly working in their garden or looking from their windows! It is so good to see them alive and well!”

Wells Happiness Alive Source Garden Window Elderly Source Of Happiness

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Never hesitate to open new windows in your life!”

Life Window

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics.”

Ifs Men Long Wonder Watches Focus Crime Prove Ethics Window Commit Ethical Lenses Binoculars Rear Window

Author:John Michael Hayes

“I bet The Walking Dead gets really low ratings out in Montana, just because all they need to do is look out their f-king window, am I right?”

Needs Looks Kings Walking Lows Window Get Real Rating Montana Walking Dead

Author:Bill Burr

“Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.”

Play Feelings Humor Funny Night Lost Trouble Theory Jokes Window Relief Empires Bats Saturday Saturday Night Rangers Marvellous Celtic Elation Glasgow

Author:Ken Dodd

“Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.”

Feels Looks Sometimes Hard Choices Rain Window Miracle Tables Roof Gratefulness

Book:True To Form

Source: True To Form

“From the window, I watch the city and the freeway. In the distance, the sky-rises look like mystic spires, unbearably close and far. I want to pick them up and eat them. I want to scream out loud sometimes, but I never do.”

Want Looks Sometimes Cities Watches Sky Picks Window Distance Loud Scream Mystic Freeways Spires

Author:Brenna Yovanoff

“Let unexpected incidents roll off you like raindrops dancing down your bedroom window.”

Window Dancing Unexpected Bedroom Incidents Raindrops

Author:Mod Sun

“Sometimes sense hides behind walls. You must find a window and stick your head right in before you can see it.”

Sometimes Behinds Wall Window Sticks Nursery Rhymes

Book:Summer and Bird

Source: Summer and Bird

“There's a pigeon's nest on the branch of the tree outside the window. A chick is growing up in it. I'm happy about that”

Growing Up Growing Tree Window Branches Nests Chicks Pigeons

Author:Aya Kito

“In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.”

Want Mind Believe Light Happens Turns Individual Attention Bed Window Sick Glasses Noise Branches Tonight Turn Off Tapping Slapping

Author:Marcus Dunstan

“When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.”

Way Running Parent Sound Voice Rooms Saws Window Sound Of Music

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.”

Thinking Certain Opportunity Careers Fans Amount Fame Window Window Of Opportunity

Author:Patrick Dempsey

“What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they're shooting. So, if someone's falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like.”

Ifs Giving Feels Shows Might Film Fall Opportunity Window Shooting Momentum

Author:Idris Elba

“In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to that role. The audience needs to stay with you, identify with you and like you. When you play the bad guy, those rules go out the window. There's so much freedom there.”

Needs Play Guy Careers Roles Audience Like You Hero Window Inherent Bad Guys Protagonists

Author:Ryan Phillippe

“No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.”

Ifs Want Matter Government Jobs Accepting Balance Politician Members Window Opposition Senior Work Life Balance Life Balance

Author:Tony Abbott

“Grass [marijuana] probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.”

Way May Hands Kids Able Certain Easy Hurt Pieces Doors Materials Window Clever Grass Pot Performers Marijuana It Hurts Mediocre Hurt Me Windows And Doors

Author:George Carlin

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