Quotes - Bassem Zaitoon (bassemzaitoon) (Damascus, 13, Syrian Arab Republic) Showing 1-30 of 33

#1

“نحن لا نتعود يا أبي إلا إذا مات شيء فينا، وتصور حجم ما مات فينا حتي تعودنا على كل ما حولنا.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

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#2

“It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil, it's what comes out of their mouths that is.”
― Paulo Coelho

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#3

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

20086 likes

#4

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: revolutionary

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#5

“It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one could perhaps postpone it: and yet instead, every now and again, by a conscious, wilful act, one chose to shorten the interval before it happened.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#6

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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#7

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

tags: freedom

1493 likes

#8

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

1822 likes

#9

“لأنَّ لهم دين، يظُّنون أنهم مُعفوْن من أن تكون لهم أخلاق.”
― أمين معلوف

400 likes

#10

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, creativity, motivational, picasso, rules, writing

2044 likes

#11

“ما من سوء أكبر من الذنب إلا تبلد الإحساس بعد الذنب”
― أحمد الشقيري

1170 likes

#12

“تُرى : حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما
هل ترى ؟
هي أشياءَ لا تُشترى.”
― أمل دنقل

1485 likes

#13

“وقريباً .. ياعزيزي الجنرال
هذه البزة تغدو
مزقاً تحسن تلميع النعال !”
― سميح القاسم, الموت الكبير

47 likes

#14

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: dumbledore

21639 likes

#15

“ما من جريمة كاملة في هذا العصر سوى أن يولد الإنسان عربياً .”
― محمد الماغوط, سأخون وطني

tags: الجريمة, العرب, الماغوط, عربي

213 likes

#16

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: defeat

2233 likes

#17

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2759 likes

#18

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm, animals, closing-line, man, satirical

3847 likes

#19

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animal-farm

7673 likes

#20

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
― Socrates

3101 likes

#21

“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

tags: learning

91 likes

#22

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

tags: character, life, wisdom

7576 likes

#23

“ كان زمناً من الأسلم فيه ان تكون قاتلاً على ان تكون عاشقاً”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

7 likes

#24

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

tags: censorship

1520 likes

#25

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

tags: expectation

6487 likes

#26

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2704 likes

#27

“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

4228 likes

#28

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18081 likes

#29

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: augustus-waters, hazel, heartbreak, privilege

14024 likes

#30

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: amsterdam, freedom, sin

6286 likes

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