Ahlam > Ahlam's Quotes

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“Everything I think of now is too rude to actually say.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.”
― craig ferguson

“I'm always a bit shy around evil people...”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free! ”
― Craig Ferguson

“I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't. ”
― Craig Ferguson

“It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.”
― Craig Ferguson

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.”
― Craig Ferguson

“Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place.

She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“If you can't trust, you can't be trustworthy.”
― Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River

“If you absolutely believe that what you do is right, you're bullet-proof.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.”
― Craig Ferguson

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat--that's the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière, I Am a Japanese Writer: A Novel

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“وما كلُّ نفسٍ حينَ تَلْقَى حَبِيبَها
تُـسَرُّ، ولا كُلُّ الغـِيابِ يُضِيرُها”
― تميم البرغوثي

“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
― Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman