Sherif > Sherif's Quotes

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey

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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
― C.E.M. Joad

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
― Albert Einstein

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”
― Pericles

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“God does not play dice with the universe.”
― Albert Einstein, The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-55

“everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.........”
― Albert Einstein

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“من نمّ لك نمّ بك, ومن نقل إليك نقل عنك, ومن إذا أرضيته فقال ماليس فيك, كذلك إذا أغضبته قال فيك ماليس فيك.”
― محمد بن إدريس الشافعي

“If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.”
― Evanescence

“الناس لا يكلفون انفسهم عناءاً كبيراً في تصوير الحياة وتخيلها، وهم يبدون استعداداً مدهشاً لتصديق ما لا يجوز تصديقه، وتصور مالا ينبغي تصوره، وكأنما آلو على أنفسهم ألا يبذلوا جهداً، وألا يحملوا أنفسهم مشقة أو عناء، والكثرة العظمى من الناس في جهل مطبق بحقائق الحياة، ومع ذلك فهم راضون عن أنفسهم مدافعون عن جهالاتهم وأوهامهم، وإن بعضهم ليتحمس للحياة ويضحي بنفسه في سبيلها، وآية ذلك إن جهالة الجاهل جزء من شخصيته، فهو يجد في الدفاع عنها دفاعاً عن نفسه وعن حياته.”
― علي مصطفى مشرفة, العلم والحياة

“Action expresses priorities.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married