Ras Sanhoury > Ras's Quotes

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

“This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time”
― chuck palahniuk

“Morality, too, is a question of time,”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Jail,' the big cop said in his stuffy, liquid voice. 'Where anything you bray will be abused against you in a sort of caw.”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“أَعَزُّ مَكانٍ في الدُنَى سَرجُ سابِحٍ
وخَيرُ جَليسٍ في الزَمانِ كتـــــابُ”
― أبو الطيب المتنبي

“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.

Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?

We live for such miracles.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
― Douglas Adams

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“أؤمن بعالم آخر
تتحقق فيه كل المثل
الصداقة
المساواة
الإخاء
باستثناء الحرية
فتلك لا يمكن بلوغها في أي مكان
نحن عبيد بالطبيعة”
― Nicanor Parra, كأنما لا شيء يحدث في تشيلي: أبيات بارا لتضليل الشعر، قصائد مضادة

“أيتها الثورة
كم من الثورات المضادة
ترتكب باسمك”
― Nicanor Parra, كأنما لا شيء يحدث في تشيلي: أبيات بارا لتضليل الشعر، قصائد مضادة

“إلى متى يا سيدي إلى متى؟
هل يجب دوما أن نحس
بما يقال؟
ألا يجب أبدا قول
ما نحسه؟”
― Nicanor Parra, كأنما لا شيء يحدث في تشيلي: أبيات بارا لتضليل الشعر، قصائد مضادة