Salim Omer > Salim's Quotes

“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
― John Wesley

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.”
― Stephen King

“The expression Jake saw on all the faces, oldest to youngest, was the same: pure joy. Not just that, he thought, and remembered a phrase his English teacher had used about how some books make us feel: the ecstasy of perfect recognition.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.”
― Stephen King

“Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“It's the world's smallest violin, playing 'My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You'.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass

“There are people who need people to need them. The reason you don’t understand is because you’re not one of those people. You’d use me and then toss me away like a paper bag if that’s what it came down to. God fucked you, my friend. You’re just smart enough so it would hurt you to do that, and just hard enough so you’d go ahead and do it anyway. You wouldn’t be able to help yourself.”
― Stephen King

“Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world--”
― Stephen King, Song of Susannah

“Bye, Felicia”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“If life transcends death

Then I will seek for you there

If not, then there too”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban’s War

“Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns