Fatimah Zaki

“يقول عن نفسه (وايت ويتمان): أنا الآتي مع الموسيقى قويا، مع مزاميري وطبولي، أنا لا أعزف أناشيدي للظافرين فقط، بل أعزف أيضا للقتلى والمقهورين، إننا نخسر المعارك بنفس الروح التي نكسبها بها.

فألف مرحى للذين فشلوا..
للذين غرقت مراكبهم في البحر..
والذين غرقوا هم أنفسهم في البحر..”
― رجاء النقاش, تأملات في الإنسان

“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as a single Arab nation, but due to the famous independent streak ingrained in the Arab personality, nothing came of those efforts. In fact, the Middle East has suffered from numerous uprisings, wars, and violent revolutions since the end of World War I right up to the present day.”
― Alistair MacLean, Lawrence of Arabia

“We seek understanding or larger context for this existence. If we find theological models inadequate, we turn to science, whose researchers state, once again, that the universe popped out of nothingness by some unknown process. They go on to "explain" that life eventually arose equally inexplicably. And this life manifests individual awareness that itself is enigmatic.
this is the scientific explanation for what's going on.
No wonder, in many circles, that such elucidation is not regarded as superior to the old-fashioned "God did it".”
― Robert Lanza MD

“Tallal, Lawrence relates, gave a moan like a hurt animal. Then he rode off to higher ground and remained there for some moments, shivering violently and staring after the retreating Turks. Lawrence moved to speak with him, but Auda caught his rein and stopped him. In one blow, in one moment, Tallal had lost every person in the world who mattered to him. and the older Auda, wiser in this matter than lawrence, realized that Tallal now had nothing left to live for.”
― Alistair MacLean, Lawrence of Arabia