Mona > Mona's Quotes

“You live your life today,
Not tomorrow,
and certainly not yesterday.”
― John Grisham

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”
― Rebecca West

“In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in anyone's brain, there is something that cannot possibly be conveyed to others.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

“لا تجبر الإنسان ولا تخيّره
يكفيه ما فيه من عقل بيحيّره
اللي النهارده بيطلبه ويشتهيه
هو اللي بكره ح يشتهي يغيّره

عجبي!”
― صلاح جاهين, رباعيات صلاح جاهين

“What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?
Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,
Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago

“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
― Francesco Petrarca

“من لايخطى لايصيب، ومن لايتعثر لاينهض.”
― مصطفى لطفي المنفلوطي, النظرات

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“لن تكون متدينا إلا بالعلم ...فالله لا يعبد بالجهل”
― مصطفى محمود, القرآن: محاولة لفهم عصري

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“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