Ghofran Saî > Ghofran's Quotes

“in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in the kind of books bill gives me to read. and just like the tape of songs, it is amazing to hold each of them in the palm of my hand. they are all my favorites. all of them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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

“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“قضيتنا سلام بالسلاح ...

فثم سلم حفرة

وسلامنا جبل

وأن العنف باب الأبجدية

في زمان

عهره دول

قبيل ذهابكم للمسلخ الدولي وفداً

أرسلوا السكين وفداً

ينتهي الخلل ...”
― مظفر النواب

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“إنه نفس المطر الذي كنت تعشقه .. أغرقك”
― هديل الحضيف

“شكراً لكَ يا الله، لأني في كل مرة أحاول الصعود إليك
تنزل إليّ، وتهمس في أذني: " لستِ وحدك

وما كنتُ يوماً وحدي يا الله/ وأنت معي”
― هديل الحضيف

“كبرنا ايها الاتراب حتى كأنا لم نكن حينا شباباَ”
― أيمن العتوم, يا صاحبي السجن

“انى كمصباح الطريق ..... صديقتى
ابكى ولا احد يرى دمعاتى”
― نزار قباني, الرسم بالكلمات

“اغفروا لي حزني وخمري وغضبي وكلماتي القاسية, بعضكم سيقول بذيئة, لا بأس .. أروني موقفا أكثر بذاءة مما نحن فيه”
― مظفر النواب

“ﻭﻃﻨﻲ ﻋﻠﻤﻨﻲ .. ﻋﻠﻤﻨﻲ ﺃﻥ ﺣﺮﻭﻑ ﺍﻟﺘﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﻣﺰﻭﺭﺓ ﺣﻴﻦ ﺗﻜﻮﻥ ﺑﺪﻭﻥ ﺩﻣﺎﺀ ﻭﻃﻨﻲ ﻋﻠﻤﻨﻲ ﺃﻥ ﺍﻟﺘﺎﺭﻳﺦ ﺍﻟﺒﺸﺮﻱ ﺑﺪﻭﻥ ﺍﻟﺤﺐ ﻋﻮﻳﻼ‌ً ﻭﻧﻜﺎﺣﺎً ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﺼﺤﺮﺍﺀ ﻭﻃﻨﻲ ... ﻫﻞ ﺃﻧﺖ ﺑﻼ‌ﺩ ﺍﻷ‌ﻋﺪﺍﺀ؟ ﻫﻞ ﺃﻧﺖ ﺑﻘﻴﺔ ﺩﺍﺣﺲ ﻭﺍﻟﻐﺒﺮﺍﺀ؟ ﻭﻃﻨﻲ ﺃﻧﻘﺬﻧﻲ ﻣﻦ ﺭﺍﺋﺤﺔ ﺍﻟﺠﻮﻉ ﺍﻟﺒﺸﺮﻱ ﻣﺨﻴﻒ ﺃﻧﻘﺬﻧﻲ ﻣﻦ ﻣﺪﻥ ﻳﺼﺒﺢ ﻓﻴﻬﺎ ﺍﻟﻨﺎﺱ ﻣﺪﺍﺧﻦ ﻟﻠﺨﻮﻑ ﻭﻟﻠﺰﺑﻞ ﻣﺨﻴﻒ ﻣﻦ ﻣﺪﻥ ﺗﺮﻗﺪ ﻓﻲ ﺍﻟﻤﺎﺀ ﺍﻵ‌ﺳﻦ ﻛﺎﻟﺠﺎﻣﻮﺱ ﺍﻟﻮﻃﻨﻲ ﻭﺗﺠﺘﺮ ﺍﻟﺠﻴﻒ”
― مظفر النواب

“و قد تُشرقُ الشَّمسُ من حُزننا غَاربة”
― مظفر النواب, مظفر النواب: الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“Sometimes we’re on a collision course, and we just don’t know it. Whether it’s by accident or by design, there’s not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she’d stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who’d stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn’t been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot.

When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadn’t broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadn’t broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadn’t stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would’ve crossed the street, and the taxi would’ve driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone’s control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don't know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don't treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let's say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can't explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "get even" with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no one else. But still, if I don't treat it, its is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then-- let it get even worse!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
― Eric Hoffer

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space