Ahmed > Ahmed's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
― Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way

“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”
― Anna Godbersen, Envy

“Reading Plato should be easy; understanding Plato can be difficult.”
― Robin Waterfield, Republic

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.”
― Gordon Parks

“If you want to be enthusiastic,
act enthusiastic.”
― Dale Carnegie

“إن من العجب العجاب أننا أمة أبناؤها -على ما فيهم من فساد- مستعدون للموت في سبيل دينهم.. لكنهم غير مستعدين للحياة لأجله.”
― محمد أبو الفتوح غنيم

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. ”
― Henry Miller

“1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to "Black Spring."
3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4) Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5) When you can't create you can work.
6) Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7) Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8) Don't be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9) Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10) Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11) Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.”
― Henry Miller

“إن من أبرز أساليب الإعداد للحرب الأهلية إقناع كل طرف أن الطرف الآخر، أو الأطراف الأخرى، خطر على الوطن أو الدين أو المجتمع.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

“إن الذي حول الوحوش الضارية إلى مخلوقات مسلية في السيرك, وجعل الفيلة تقف على رؤوسها, والأسود تقفز كالبهلوانات, قد اكتشف أنه يستطيع أن يجري التحويل نفسه على الإنسان, حوله إلى مخلوف مسلوب الإرادة.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

“حين تسكت عن حقك الواضح، بسبب الخوف غالباً، فإنك لن تتوقع من الآخر أن يحترم لك هذا الحق، سيتصرف في المرة القادمة وكأن التطاول على حقوقك من المسلمات.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

“أملى أكبر من جهدى .. وجهدي أكبر من موهبتي .. وموهبتى سجينة طبعي .. ولكنى أقاوم ......”
― توفيق الحكيم, سجن العمر

“When I’m asleep I’m a politician, and when I’m awake I’m a criminal. Throughout the day and night, my mentality never changes.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.”
― Erin Hunter

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“The echo mocks her origin to prove she is the original.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
― Plato

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil