Ali ElSheikh > Ali's Quotes

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he who can call today his own:
he who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, or rain or shine
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
― Horace

“And finally this question

The mystery of whose story it
will be.

Of who draws the curtain.

Who is it that chooses our steps
in the dance?

Who drives us mad?

Lashes us with whips
and crowning us
with victory when we
survive the impossible.

Who is it... that does all these things?

Who honors those we love for the
very life we live?

Who sends monsters to kill us, and
at the same time sings that we'll
never die?

Who teaches us what's real and how to
laugh at lies?

Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend?

Who chains us and who holds the key that can set us free?

It's you...

You have all the weapons you need...

Now fight!”
― Zack Snyder Sucker Punch

“Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day old man, next day little girl. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they are not here to fight our battles, but to whisper from a hearth. Reminding that it's us... it's everyone of us who holds the power of the worlds we create.”
― Zack Snyder Sucker Punch, Sucker Punch: The Art of the Film

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“مهما كنا أو حيثما كنا نعيش، فإننا نشعر في قرارة أنفسنا بأننا غير كاملين. كما لو كنا فقدنا شيئا ويجب أن نستعيده. لكن معظمنا لا يعثر على ذلك الشيء أبدا. أما الذين بإمكانهم العثور عليه.. فلا يجرؤ إلا قلة قليلة على الخروج والبحث عنه.”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love