Ali Farhad > Ali's Quotes

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

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

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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“لقد كان رسول الله معصومًا في تلقي الرسالة وتبليغها حصرًا، فالرسالة تشريعات وأحكام وشعائر لاتحتمل الخطأ والصواب ولا مكان فيها للرأي والرأي الآخر.
لذلك نجد آيات وجوب الطاعة نزلت على محمد عليه السلام من مقام الرسالة وليس من مقام النبوة:
قال تعالى: (وإن تطيعوه تهتدوا وما على الرسول إلا البلاغ المبين)
وقال تعالى: (من يطع الرسول فقد أطاع الله).

- أما في مقام النبوة فالأمر مختلف تمامًا، لأن النبوة علوم وتعليمات والنبي في مقام النبوة يخطئ ويصيب ويستشير أصحابه، لذلك نرى أن الله حينما أراد أن يصحح للرسول صحح له من مقام النبوة وليس الرسالة:
قال تعالى: (يا ايها النبي لم تحرم ما أحل الله لك)
وقال تعالى: (ماكان للنبي والذين آمنوا أن يستغفروا للمشركين).”
― محمد شحرور, الإسلام الأصل والصورة

“صلاة الفجر بالنسبة لي هي إحدى أجمل الشعائر الإسلامية و أكثرها إثارة. هناك شيء خفي في النهوض ليلاً -بينما الجميع نائم- لتسمع موسيقى القرآن تملأ سكون الليل. تشعر و كأنك تغادر هذا العالم وتسافر مع الملائكة لتمجد الله بالمديح عند الفجر.”
― جيفري لانج, الصراع من أجل الإيمان

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
― Mario Puzo

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”
― Mario Puzo

“Behind every successful fortune there is a crime.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster”
― Mario Puzo

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses

“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Appear as you may wish to be”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

“It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?”
― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder