Fi Quotes

“I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake.
"Maybe it was," said Wylie
"It's poor technique."
"I'd all for it," said Wylie. "I'm vain as a woman. If anybody pretends to be interested in me, I'll ask for more. I like advice."
Stahr shook his head distastefully. Wylie kept on ribbing him--he was one of those to whom this privilege was permitted. "You fall for some kinds of flattery," he said. "this 'little Napoleon stuff.'"
"It makes me sick," said Stahr, "but it's not as bad as some man trying to help you."
"If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"
"That's a question of merchandise," said Stahr. "I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind."
"You're no merchant," said Wylie. "I knew a lot of them when I was a publicity man, and I agree with Charles Francis Adams."
"What did he say?"
"He knew them all--Gould, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor--and he said there wasn't one he'd care to meet again in the hereafter. Well--they haven't improved since then, and that's why I say you're no merchant."
"Adams was probably a sourbelly," said Stahr. "He wanted to be head man himself, but he didn't have the judgement or else the character."
"He had brains," said Wylie rather tartly.
"It takes more than brains. You writers and artists poop out and get all mixed up, and somebody has to come in and straighten you out." He shrugged his shoulders. "You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important-especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

“Yeteneğine ancak bir amaca hizmet etmeyi öğretirsen onu geliştirebilirsin.”
― Azra Kohen

“كان يعتبر أن جملة واحدة مقتبسة من كتاب، أكان مقدسًا أم دنيويًا، لا يستبدل حجة عقلانية، ولا يغني المرء عن التفكير بعقله.”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“فالرجل الأصيل لا يرمي حجرًا في البئر التي ارتوى منها”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“كان يسمح لهم (الأب لأولاده) بسلوك مسارات متعارضة، ...، فالأولوية للأواصر العائلية، .. أواصر وثيقة إلى الأبد.”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“كان يدرس حيثما يستطيع الدراسة، ويعلم حيثما تعرض عليه وظيفة، ويعتبر أن هذا من حقه وواجبه، وليسع (رجال الدين على اختلاف طوائفهم) بعد ذلك ما طاب لهم إلى أهدافهم الرعوية.”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“شاب يتساءل عما بوسعه أن يفعل كي لا يهدر حياته.، وهل من الحكمة البقاء في البلاد، أو من المشرف الرحيل. (..) فالهجرة في هذه الألاض تحصل دائمًا للأسباب نفسها، مصحوبة بأشكال الندم نفسها التي يجترها المرء لبعض الوقت قبل الاستعداد لدفنها.”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“بل أبحر لأنه كان هو في محنة، ولأن بلد الأصول لم يحمل له سوى الخيبات، ولأنه كان يرغب رغبة شديدة بمتنفس بعيد.”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“التمرد المتزن لإنسان حر كان يرغب بشدة أن تقلب الموائد دون رحمة، إنما ليس كيفما اتفق، ولا دون غاية محددة.”
― أمين معلوف