Yasmin Hamdy > Yasmin's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”
― Eugene Field

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
― Nelson Mandela

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
― Anthony Powell

“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.”
― Vaclav Havel

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley

“Misa: I can't imagine a world without Light!

L: Yes,that would be dark.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“No one can tell what is righteous and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“Start looking around you... and all you see are people the world would be better off without.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, DEATH NOTE 1: 退屈

“The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear name tags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself.”
― Tsugumi Ohba

“There is no heaven or hell.
No matter what you do while you're alive, everybody goes to the same place once you die.

Death is Equal.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Death Note, Vol. 12: Finis

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.”
― Federico Fellini

“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
― Francis Bacon

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”
― Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding