Hany Adeeb > Hany's Quotes

“و ماذا كانت ستفعل بنفسها في ليالي الوحدة و الخوف لو لم تكن الكتب هناك”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
― Daniel Klein, Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein

“لا تسمح للواقع ان يصيبك بالاحباط ...
استمع إلى الكلمة ، فهي تقدم وعودا عظمى و ثمينة تناسب كل ظرف تمر به”
― الاب دانيال, لا تطرح ثقتك

“أن انسانيتى هى تجاوز متواصل للذات”
― Nietzsche

“علامة الصوفى الصادق ان يفتقر بعد الغنى ويذل بعد العز ويخفى بعد الشهرة وعلامة الصوفى الكاذب ضد ذلك”
― شمس الدين الرازي, حدائق الحقائق

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

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.”
― Derek Prince

“We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.”
― Derek Prince

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

“At evening the autumnal forests resound
With deadly weapons, the golden plains
And blue lakes, above them the sun
Rolls more darkly by; night enfolds
The dying warriors, the wild lament
Of their broken mouths.
But in the grassy vale the spilled blood,
Red clouds in which an angry god lives,
Gathers softly, lunar coldness;
All roads lead to black decay.
Beneath the golden boughs of night and stars
The sister’s shadow reels through the silent grove
To greet the ghosts of heroes, their bleeding heads;
And the dark flutes of autumn sound softly in the reeds.
O prouder sorrow! you brazen altars
Today an immense anguish feeds the mind’s hot flame,
The unborn descendants.”
― Georg Trakl

“الظلام ممتلىء بهمس الاجوبة على اسئلة الليل”
― Georg Trakl

“إنني في روح تلك المرأة التي تنهض من نومها لتبكي”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Mark Twain once told a story about a man who scoured the planet looking for the greatest general who ever lived. When the man was informed that the person he sought had already died and gone to heaven, he made a trip to the Pearly Gates to look for him. Saint Peter pointed at a regular-looking Joe. “That isn’t the greatest of all generals,” protested the man. “I knew that person when he lived on Earth, and he was only a cobbler.” “I know that,” said Saint Peter, “but if he had been a general, he would have been the greatest of them all.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“No man’s real worth is measured by his property or power:
fortune belongs to one category of things
and virtue to another.

And no woman should think herself any the less for sale
if she prefers a rich man to a poor one
in marriage and wants what she would get
in a husband more than the husband himself.
Reward such greed with cash and not devotion,
for she is after property alone
and is prepared to prostitute herself
to an even richer man given the chance.”
― Pierre Abélard, Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

“انه الزمن التى يتسلط فيه الضوء الكشاف على الروح
انه الزمن الذى لا تستطيع انت فيه انت تحب شقاءك لانه شقاء الجميع”
― Vladimír Holan, Selected poems

“He was like a fine olive tree, which when its roots are checked one way will put them out another. Summer or winter, storm or calm, his soul sought justice and the end of wrong.”
― Mary Renault

“It is a strange thing to recall; but as I fell asleep, I was wondering how it might feel to be courted for one's beauty. I expect Pythagoras would have told me that in some past life, as youth or woman, I had been cruel to my lovers, and had chosen to make amends. In my time I have talked with many philosophers, who have expounded to me the ways of the gods with men. Out of them all, Pythagoras' belief seems to me the most just, supposing it is true. But then, if it is, and all these things befall us, unless we have the Sight we shall never know.”
― Mary Renault, The Praise Singer

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You