Mohamed Ali > Mohamed's Quotes

“Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me. Me”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.)”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. Other people have their own values to live by, and the same holds true with me. These differences give rise to disagreements, and the combination of these disagreements can give rise to even greater misunderstandings. As a result, sometimes people are unfairly criticized. This goes without saying. It’s not much fun to be misunderstood or criticized, but rather a painful experience that hurts people deeply.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“The army could not have been happier. The result of the referendum was a repeated slap to the faces of those liberal powers who thought they could change the country. The army never wanted change, not with so many interests, businesses, and powerful people involved. It was a system sixty years in the making. Removing Mubarak didn’t even touch the deep state that he was a disposable face of. The Muslim Brotherhood were never serious about the revolution either. They used it simply to come into power. They had no problem with the old regime as long as they were on top of it. One”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“it easier to use religion to mass-control people with shitty lives?”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Or maybe it is the very nature of military rule: they hate diversity and they don’t know how to deal with it, so the best thing is to make everyone as homogeneous as the uniforms in their training camps. The”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“You are preaching a religion that we don’t know and don’t want to be part of. Keep that religion to yourself and we will keep ours.” Those”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“وداعا أيها الغريب
كانت إقامتك قصيرة، لكنها كانت رائعة
عسى أن تجد جنتك التي فتشت عنها كثيرا

وداعا أيها الغريب

كانت زيارتك رقصة من رقصات الظل
قطرة من قطرات الندى قبل شروق الشمس
لحناً سمعناه لثوان من الدغل
ثم هززنا رؤوسنا وقلنا أننا توهمناه

وداعا أيها الغريب
لكن كل شيء ينتهي!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة النبوءة