Quotes - Samy Maher (Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 295

#1

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7181 likes

#2

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body

tags: future, hope

3626 likes

#3

“و الاماني تنال... أحيانا ...بطول البـــــــــــــــــــــــال”
― يوسف إدريس, بيت من لحم

400 likes

#4

“There's always some further action to take.”
― Pierre Boulle

1428 likes

#5

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

3918 likes

#6

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39244 likes

#7

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

2464 likes

#8

“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

1525 likes

#9

“أي ذكرى مؤلمة بالضرورة .. حتى لو كانت من ذكريات اللحظات الهانئة .. فتلك أيضا مؤلمة لفواتها.”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

2 likes

#10

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

3620 likes

#11

“إننا نحاول دوماً تفسير الأمور وفق ما نريد، لا وفق ما هي عليه”
― باولو كويلو, ألف

tags: aleph, paulo-coelho

376 likes

#12

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

3888 likes

#13

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

3093 likes

#14

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27739 likes

#15

“I don't see why it's impossible to express everything that's on one's mind.”
― Ivan S. Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

107 likes

#16

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

tags: alone, books, friends, solitude

3498 likes

#17

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

tags: character, courage, self-assessment, self-esteem, strength

4210 likes

#18

“ومن تنجذب إليه فكريا يكون جميلا في عينيك .. وبالتالي فإن العين ليست نافذة العقل وإنما العقل هو نافذة العين.. الجمال إحساس عقلي .. شعور وجداني”
― عادل صادق, حب بلا زواج وزواج بلا حب

499 likes

#19

“كل شىء جميل فى صحبة من تحب”
― عبد الوهاب مطاوع, أماكن في القلب

295 likes

#20

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

tags: parenting, philosophy, self-assurance

5378 likes

#21

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

2189 likes

#22

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

4661 likes

#23

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
― Studs Terkel

2112 likes

#24