Nada Ramadan > Nada's Quotes

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
― Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof: With the History of the Old and New Testament Acted Thereon

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!”
― Woody Allen

“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
― Woody Allen

“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”
― Woody Allen

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”
― Woody Allen

“ إن ما تحتاجه مصر أساسا إنما هو ثورة نفسية، بمعني ثورة علي نفسها أولا ، وعلي نفسيتها ثانيا ،أي تغيير جذري في العقلية والمثل وأيديولوجية الحياة قبل أي تغيير حقيقي في حياتها وكيانها ومصيرها ...ثورة في الشخصية المصرية وعلي الشخصية المصرية ...ذلك هو الشرط المسبق لتغيير شخصية مصر وكيان مصر ومستقبل مصر”
― جمال حمدان, شخصية مصر: دراسة في عبقرية المكان

“لعل من أبرز ملامح الشخصية المصرية، المركزية الصارخة طبيعيا وإداريا. وهي صفة متوطنة لأنها قديمة قدم الأهرامات، مزمنة حتى اليوم”
― جمال حمدان, شخصية مصر: دراسة في عبقرية المكان

“إنها المركزية العارمة الطاغية بأمر التاريخ وبحكم الجغرافيا. وهكذا تظل المركزية ملمحا تاريخيا أساسيا في شخصية مصر”
― جمال حمدان, شخصية مصر: دراسة في عبقرية المكان