Ali Baniasad > Ali's Quotes

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
― Sophocles

“I am a part of all that I have met.”
― Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
― William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“اندیشیدن، سرآغاز تحلیل رفتن است”
― آلبر کامو/Albert Camus

“چرا برای یک نفر دیگر اشک می‌ریزی؟ اشک‌هایت را نگه‌دار برای وقت ماتم خودت، وقتی تنها شدی! وقتی تنهایی خواست دلت را بشکند و کسی را نداشتی...”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Landlady

“براي زنده ماندن به 2 خورشيد نياز داريد :
يكي در قلب و يكي در آسمان”
― نادر ابراهيمي

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“دولت یک دست دراز دارد و یک دست کوتاه. دست دراز به همه جا می رسد و برای گرفتن است،دست کوتاه برای دادن است ولی فقط به کسانی می رسد که خیلی نزدیکند
(نان وشراب)”
― اینیاتسیو سیلونه

“Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying no to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.”
― Ignazio Silone

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.”
― Peter L. Berger, A Rumor of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural

“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
― Ignazio Silone, Bread and Wine

“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Ain’t many guys travel around together,” he mused. “I don’t know why. Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“زیر این آسمان ابری

به معنای نامش فکر می کند

گل آفتابگردان!”
― گروس عبدالملكيان

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― گروس عبدالملكيان

“دختران شهر
به روستا فکر می کنند
دختران روستا
در آرزوی شهر می میرند
مردان کوچک
به آسایش مردان بزرگ فکر می کنند
مردان بزرگ
در آرزوی آرامش مردان کوچک
می میرند
کدام پل
در کجای جهان
شکسته است
که هیچکس به خانه اش نمی رسد”
― گروس عبدالملکیان

“Maybe I'd never see him again... maybe he'd gone for good... swallowed up, body and soul, in the kind of stories you hear about... Ah, it's an awful thing... and being young doesn't help any... when you notice for the first time... the way you lose people as you go along ... the buddies you'll never see again... never again... when you notice that they've disappeared like dreams... that it's all over... finished... that you too will get lost someday... a long way off but inevitably... in the awful torrent of things and people... of the days and shapes... that pass... that never stop...”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Death on the Installment Plan

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― Albert Camus

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942