كوثر الشريفي > كوثر's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“كثرة الأحزان ياعمي جعلت الناس مفاجيع أفراح”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
― Malcom X, Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”
― Mona Van Duyn

“تعبٌ كلها الحياة فما أعجبُ
إلا من راغبٍ في ازديادِ”
― أبو العلاء المعري

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“In the world I am
Always a stranger
I do not understand its language
It does not understand my silence”
― Bei Dao

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”
― Jane Addams

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
― Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List

“...We never set eyes on Fatima or our dog or the city we had known ever again. Like a body prematurely buried, unmourned withpot coffin or ceremony, our hasty untidy exit from Jerusalem was no way to have said goodbye to our home, our country and all that we knew and loved.”
― Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story

“ويكثر قول الشعر في الحرب لا الهوى..
لأن الهوى لو قيس بالحرب جارح
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وفي كل حرب ثم حق وباطل..
وفي الحب لا هذا ولا ذاك واضح
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فإن قال لا أهوى فليس بصادق..
وإن قال أهوى أخجلته المذابح
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وفي شعره معنى فصيح وغامض..
وفي صدره قلب مقيم ونازح
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وشعب مقيم في خيام كأنها..
خيال من الشعر القديم يراوح
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فقف عند رسم ما ترحل أهله..
ولكنه رسم لحزنك صالح
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وما ضره هجر العشيرة إنما..
تقاعسها والموت غاد ورائح
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إذا صار خذلان الأحبة دأبنا..
فمن عاش خسران ومن مات رابح
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وإن كان هذا صلحنا وسلامنا..
فأخزى إلهي بعدها من يصالح”
― تميم البرغوثي

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
― Mahatma Ghandi

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

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“تُرى : حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما
هل ترى ؟
هي أشياءَ لا تُشترى.”
― أمل دنقل

“لا تجزع من جرحك، وإلا فكيف للنور أن يتسلل إلى باطنك؟”
― جلال الدين الرومي

“يا ويل القرّاء من أولئك الكتاب الذين لا يقرأون ! ”
― علي الوردي, خوارق اللاشعور: أو أسرار الشخصية الناجحة

“كان يلزمنا قلوب أكبر كي تتسع لكل هذا الأسى”
― إبراهيم نصرالله, أعراس آمنة

“الفصحى .. تضحكني هذه اللغة .. أظن بأن العرب هم الوحيدون في العالم الذين يكتبون ويقرأون لغة لا يتحدثونها !”
― حوراء النداوي, تحت سماء كوبنهاغن

“It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variations of the same desire to be close.”
― Rachel Cohn, Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List