Khaled Mehio > Khaled's Quotes

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When I lose the reasons to live, I shall die.”
― Alija Ali Izetbegovic, Notes from Prison

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.”
― Tariq Ramadan, What I Believe

“Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Punctuality is the politness of kings" p.154”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“جس الطبيب خافقي وقال لي:
هل هنا الألم ؟؟
قلت له : نعم
فشق بالمشرط جيب معطفي واخرج القلم !!
هز الطبيب رأسه.. ومال وأبتسم
وقال لي: ليس سوى قلم
فقلت :لا يا سيدي
هذا يد ...وفم
ورصاصة.. ودم
وتهمة سافرة.... تمشي بلا قدم !”
― أحمد مطر

“اذا قرأت "قراءة فعلية" أربعين كتابا حقيقيا خلال عشرين عاما ، فبوسعك مواجهة العالم”
― Amin Maalouf, The First Century After Beatrice

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“أكتب... لأنني أحب الكتابة
وأحب الكتابة... لأن الحياة تستوقفني، تُدهشني، تشغلني، تستوعبني، تُربكني وتُخيفني وأنا مولعةٌ بهـا”
― رضوى عاشور

“!لك شيء في هذا العالم.. فقم”
― غسان كنفاني

“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
― Albert Camus

“If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't,
If you like to win, but you think you can't
It is almost certain you won't.

If you think you'll lose, you're lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!”
― Walter D. Wintle