Amgad > Amgad's Quotes

“Here’s another question I have. How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?
Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen, that we passed chickens in goodness. Name 6 ways we’re better than chickens.

See, nobody can do it! You know why? ‘Cause chickens are decent people.
You don’t see chickens hanging around in drug gangs, do you? No, you don’t see a chicken strapping some guy into a chair and hooking up his nuts to a car battery, do you? When’s the last chicken you heard about come home from work and beat the shit out of his hen, huh? Doesn’t happen, ’cause chickens are decent people.”
― George Carlin

“Isn’t making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?”
― George Carlin

“Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”
― Bill Maher

“Since the topic is science, the non scientists don't get a vote. We shouldn't decide everything by polling the masses. This is the fallacy called Argumentum Ad Numerum, the idea that something is true because great number believe it, as in EAT SHIT, twenty trillions flies can't be wrong!”
― Bill Maher

“The big mistake of modern media has been this notion of balance for balance's sake. That the left is just as violent and cruel as the right, that unions are just powerful as corporations, that reverse racism is just as damaging as racism....

Governments led by liberal democrats passed laws which changed the air I breathe for the better. Okay I'm for them and not for the party that is as we speak plotting to abolish the E.P.A. And I don't need to pretend that both sides have a point here, and I don't care what left or right commentators say about it. I only care what climate scientists say about it.

Two opposing sides don't necessarily have two compelling arguments. Martin Luther King speaks on that wall in the capital and he didn't say "Remember folks, those southern sheriffs with the fire hoses and the German shepherds, they have a point too." No, he said, "I had a dream and they had a nightmare." This isn't Team Edward & Team Jacob. Liberals like the ones on that field must stand up and be counted and not pretend that we're as mean or greedy or shortsighted or plain batched as they are. And if that is too polarizing for you and you still want to reach across the aisle and hold hands and sing with someone on the right ... Try Church.”
― Bill Maher

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don't these schools do enough damage making all these kids think alike, now they have to make them look alike too? It's not a new idea, either. I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.”
― George Carlin

“Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.”
― Albert Camus

“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
― Albert Camus

“Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.”
― Albert Camus

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
― Stephen Colbert

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”
― George Carlin

“You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
― John Davis

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth to be a virtue? Imagine that you meet a madman, who claims that he is a fish and that we are all fish. Are you going to argue with him? Are you going to undress in front of him and show him that you don't have fins? Are you going to say to his face what you think?...If you told him the whole truth and nothing but the truth, only what you thought, you would enter into a serious conversation with a madman and you yourself would become mad. And it is the same way with the world that surrounds us. If I obstinately told the truth to its face, it would mean that I was taking it seriously. And to take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness. I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself.”
― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves

“و كان دائما من أنصار التقاليد القديمة التى تحرم على المرأة ان تشارك الرجل طعامه حتى لو كانت زوجته، لا لأنها تقاليد تحط من قيمة المرأة، بل لأنها تصون المرأة من ان تبدو أمام رجلها فى شكل منفر .. شكل حيوان يأكل و يلتقط الطعام بشفتيه و يمضغه بأسنانه .. فى حين أن الشفتين لم تخلقا إللا للقبل و الأسنان لم تخلق إللا للإبتسام”
― إحسان عبد القدوس, النظارة السوداء

“You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.”
― Bob Dylan

“In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.”
― Woody Allen

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
― Woody Allen

“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”
― Woody Allen

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“Luck is statistics taken personally.”
― Penn Jillette

“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.”
― Groucho Marx

“We've been brainwashed into believing that it's a sin to discriminate. But discrimination doesn't mean racism; it means telling unlike things apart.”
― Bill Maher, When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

“Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.”
― Groucho Marx

“All men fear death. It’s a natural fear that consumes us all. We fear death because we feel that we haven’t loved well enough or loved at all, which ultimately are one and the same. However, when you make love with a truly great woman, one that deserves the utmost respect in this world and one that makes you feel truly powerful, that fear of death completely disappears. Because when you are sharing your body and heart with a great woman the world fades away. You two are the only ones in the entire universe. You conquer what most lesser men have never conquered before, you have conquered a great woman’s heart, the most vulnerable thing she can offer to another. Death no longer lingers in the mind. Fear no longer clouds your heart. Only passion for living, and for loving, become your sole reality. This is no easy task for it takes insurmountable courage. But remember this, for that moment when you are making love with a woman of true greatness you will feel immortal.
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving or not loving well, which is the same thing. And when the man who is brave and true looks death squarely in the face like some rhino hunters I know or Belmonte, who is truly brave, it is because they love with sufficient passion to push death out of their minds. Until it returns, as it does to all men. And then you must make really good love again. Think about it.”
― Woody Allen

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being