Hind H. > Hind's Quotes

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“عندما يبدأ شخص ما بتنازلات صغيرة, فإن الحياة تفقد كل معناها في النهاية .”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“الصعوبة لاتكمن في معايشة الناس إنما في فهمهم .”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“حتى في أسوأ المحن قد تجد خيراً كافياً يمكنك من احتمال المحنة !”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“كيف يمكن التعايش مع الفكرة التي تقول :” إن وعي الحياة فوق الحياة نفسها ، ومعرفة قوانين السعادة – هي أعلى من السعادة”– أن ما يجب النضال ضده هي هذه الفكرة بالتحديد.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

“...you all want to be the sea. But you're not the sea, you're just a raindrop.”
― Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English

“Say it with me: I am a drop in the ocean. I am neighbour, nation, north and nowhere. I am one among many and we all fall together.”
― Stephen Kelman

“Her laughing was like a wave in the sea, when it landed on you it made you laugh as well.”
― Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English

“أريد ذلك المكان الذي بوسع المرء فيه أن يكون نفسه، أن يشبه ظاهره باطنه، و أن ينسجم مع حقيقته”
― بثينة العيسى, كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى

“مختبئة بين أعمدة الكتب وأقرأ، تحرسني أرواح الشعراء والفلاسفة، أصنع صداقات مع أبطال الروايات، وأعيش حيوات مفارقة.”
― بثينة العيسى, كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Nothing warms the cockles of the heart more than the smug self-satisfaction of being right.”
― Val McDermid

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex