سعاد علي > سعاد's Quotes

“What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.”
― Alice Dalgliesh, The Silver Pencil

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

“In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”
― Ally Condie, Reached

“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that's a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It's damaged but it's there. Don't let them take it from you.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
― Sheila Hancock

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

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

“إن الذي يعيش لنفسه قد يعيش مستريحا، ولكنه يعيش صغيرا ويموت صغيرا.”
― سيد قطب رحمه الله

“أنا قلت وأكرر: إن كنا نخشى الموت، فنحن نخشى الموت على فراشنا كما يموت البعير. نخشى أن نموت في حوادث الطرق، أو بجلطة دماغية، أو بسكتة قلبية. لكننا لا نخشى أن نُقتل في سبيل ديننا، وفي سبيل وطننا، وفي سبيل مقدساتنا.”
― يحيى السنوار

“دخل الناس النار من ثلاثة أبواب :
1- باب شبهة أورثت شكا فى دين الله.
2- وباب شهوة أورثت تقديم الهوى على طاعته ومرضاته .
3- وباب غضب أورث العدوان على خلقه .”
― ابن القيم الجوزية