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“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

“السياسة الكبرى هي كيفية إعداد شعب إعدادا جيدا للعبودية-من اليمين أو من اليسار-عن طريق الشاشة الصغيرة وهو يبتسم في سعادة وغفلة ! وإذا كان من السهل حكم الشعب الجاهل, فما أسهل ذلك عن طريق التلفزيون.”
― Roger Garaudy, حفارو القبور: الحضارة التي تحفر للإنسانية قبرها

“لأننا نتقن الصمت، حمّلونا وزر النوايا!”
― غادة السمان

“لن تكون متدينا إلا بالعلم ...فالله لا يعبد بالجهل”
― مصطفى محمود, القرآن: محاولة لفهم عصري

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“When the mind, body, and spirit work together I believe anything is possible.”
― Criss Angel

“What you see is what you get.”
― Criss Angel

“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“إن الذين يتكسبون بالإسلام لا
يستطيعون خدمته”
― زينب الغزالي, أيام من حياتي

“يقولون لي بعت السلامة بالردى
فقلت : أما والله ، ما نالني خسر
وهل يتجافى الموت عني ساعة
إذا ما تجافى عني الأسر والضر ؟
هو الموت فاختر ما علا لك ذكره
فلم يمت الانسان ما حيي الذكر”
― أبو فراس الحمداني, ديوان أبى فراس الحمداني

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.”
― Tariq Ramadan

“Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.”
― Tariq Ramadan, The Quest For Meaning

“Truth telling, therefore, has to be an ultimate value, until it clashes with another ultimate value, pleasure, at which point, to state the obvious, there is conflict.”
― Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy