Abanoub Ibrahim > Abanoub's Quotes

“Come, come, whoever you are, come.
Infidel, idolator, Wanderer, fire-worshipper, it doesn't matter, come.
Ours is not a convent of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a hundred times,
Come, come again.”
― Rumi

“ نحن أسرة الظلام. لن يطلع علينا نهار! وكنت أحسب الشر مقيما في كوخ أخي ادريس، فاذا به في دمنا نحن. ان ادريس يقهقه ويسكر ويعربد، أما نحن فيقتل بعضنا بعضاً ".”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“إن العدل غاية النص، و إن مخالفة النص من أجل العدل أصح في ميزان الإسلام الصحيح من مجافاة العدل بالإلتزام النص.”
― فرج فودة, الحقيقة الغائبة

“فليست العلمانية إنكاراً للأديان، وإنما هي إنكار لدور رجال الدين - بصفتهم رجال دين - في إدارة سياسة الدولة أو توجيهها”
― فرج فودة, الوفد والمستقبل

“القرآن لا يفسر نفسه بنفسه، و الإسلام لا يطبق نفسه بنفسه، و إنما يتم ذلك من خلال المسلمين..وما أسوأ ما فعل المسلمون بالإسلام”
― فرج فودة, الحقيقة الغائبة

“في كل شبر من هذه الحارة تجد دليلا على وجود الفتوات، ولكنك لن تجد دليلا واحدا على وجود أناس مثل جبل أو رفاعة أو قاسم.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.”
― Gabrielle Roy

“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
― Bob Newhart

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.

"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.

"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.”
― Joseph Heller Catch 22

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed.
She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant,
Three geese in a flock
one flew east
one flew west
one flew over the cuckoo's nest”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Rules? PISS ON YOUR FUCKING RULES!”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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

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

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
― George Orwell

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“الكتب ترغمك على أن ترد مقابلاً ما لها،أن تدرب ذكاءك و مخيلتك،في حين تمكنك مشاهدة فيلم-بل التمتع به- في حالة من الغياب العقلي السلبي.”
― بول أوستر, Man in the Dark

“الطريق إلى الحقيقة يبدأ بالشك.”
― فرج فودة, حوار حول العلمانية

“لا تقل أني سقط لأن العالم ملئ بالمغريات ، ولكن الأصح أن تقول : انك سقط لأن في قلبك حنينا إلي تلك المغريات”
― البابا شنودة الثالث, انطلاق الروح

“إن مصر في الحقيقة تستوعب، بل تفترس بشكل كامل الأجانب الذين يعيشون على ترابها.”
― نوبار باشا, مذكرات نوبار باشا