Quotes - Hany Sameh (Cairo, 11, Egypt) Showing 1-25 of 25

#1

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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#2

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

21522 likes

#3

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

45223 likes

#4

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29738 likes

#5

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: books, reading

25519 likes

#6

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

13741 likes

#7

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

23584 likes

#8

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

tags: books

8703 likes

#9

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20726 likes

#10

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

7421 likes

#11

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

6576 likes

#12

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

6752 likes

#13

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”
― Thomas Watson

tags: christ, christianity, grace

119 likes

#14

“A stumble may prevent a fall.”
― Thomas Fuller

tags: attitude, insight, learning, life, patience

214 likes

#15

“Error, indeed is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced more true than truth itself.”
― Irenaeus of Lyons

tags: error, truth

26 likes

#16

“Peace if possible. Truth at all costs.”
― Martin Luther

110 likes

#17

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

1538 likes

#18

“A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

498 likes

#19

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. ”
― Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

tags: photography

273 likes

#20

“الصُور الجماعية المُعلَّقة على الجدار بها شخص مفقود ؛
. دائماً يتنازل عن مكانهِ لِيلتقط الصُورة”
― Nour Albawardi

tags: photography, sadness

106 likes

#21

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”
― Robert Frank

tags: black-and-white, photography

270 likes

#22

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.”
― Ansel Adams

tags: art, photography

708 likes

#23

“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.”
― Eudora Welty

tags: memory, photography

622 likes

#24

“ليس في الطبيعة ما يضحك رغم كل ما قد يظنه الانسان لامتلاء عقله بأوهام حمقاء! لسوف تجد الحيوانات لدينا من المضحكاتأكثر مما نجد لديها، لأنني مقتنع بأننا نرتكب من الحماقات أكثر مما ترتكب الحيوانات.”
― فيودور ديستويفسكي, الإخوة كارامازوف 1

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#25

“Nothing being less accordant with the nature of God than to cast off the government of the world, leaving it to chance, and so to wink at the crimes of men that they may wanton with impunity in evil courses; it follows, that every man who indulges in security, after extinguishing all fear of divine judgment, virtually denies that there is a God.”
― Augustine of Hippo

tags: deism, sovereignty-of-god

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