Afnan > Afnan's Quotes

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”
― Andrew Davidson

“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..”
― Andrew Davidson

“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. ”
― Andrew Davidson

“Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

“And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks

“You should try not to talk so much, friend. You'll sound far less stupid that way.

- Breeze”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“لا شيء يخيفني أكثر من الارتباط برجل تقليدي بحت، ذوقه رديء في الملابس والكلمات ، رجل بليد لا مشكلة لديه بأن يفوت ولادة طفلنا الأول ، أو ذكرى زواجنا من أجل مباراة فريقه المفضل ، لا يقرأ لا يكتب لا يمارس الرياضة، ليس لديه ما يفعله في وقت فراغه عدا التمدد وحشو معدته بالدهون، يخجل من مناداتي -حبيبتي- ويستبدلها بكلمات خاوية من المشاعر كـ أم العيال أو الاهل.
لا يراني أكثر من امرأه تطبخ له في النهار و تدللله في المساء، ومابين الاثنين أكون -لا شيء- رجل كهذا آمُل أن يكون قد أنقرض ..”
― هنوف الجاسر