Famous Quotes

Quotes by Nas

• I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant.
• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
• I've accomplished a lot, but I still have more dreams that I want to achieve.
• I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
• I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
• If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
• If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
• If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
• If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
• If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
• In man - in the history of mankind, this has happened many times, and occupation leaders hang on to the land that they're occupying. People fight to liberate their land. But in the end, the people's will is what achieves victory.
• In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
• It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
• It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
• It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
• It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.
• Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
• Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
• Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
• Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.
• My free time at home is usually spent emailing, listening to music, reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less, but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.
• My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.
• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
• Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.
• OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
• Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
• Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
• Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
• So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
• Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
• That is why if Lebanon concludes a peace agreement with Israel and brings that accord to the Parliament our deputies will reject it Hezbollah refuses any conciliation with Israel in principle.
• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
• The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.
• The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.
• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.