Dee > Dee's Quotes

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“ولكن آفة حارتنا النسيان.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“-إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“وتسائل في قلق: هل بقيتُ في الحياة بمعجزة لأعمل حمّالا؟!”
― نجيب محفوظ, Arabian Nights & Days

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“والله ما كرهتم الفتونة إلا لأنها كانت عليكم، وما أن يأنس أحدكم في نفسه قوة حتى يبادر إلى الظلم والعدوان، وما للشياطين المستترة في أعماقكم إلا الضرب بلا رحمة ولا هوادة، فإما النظام وإما الهلاك.”
― نجيب محفوظ, أولاد حارتنا

“You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.”
― Jason Fried, Rework

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“ليس كل ما يخطر للمرء يقوله ، لا سيما إذا كان صحيحا”
― محمد عفيفي, ترانيم في ظل تمارا

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“أتدري كيف يُسرق عمر المرء منه؟ يذهل عن يومه في ارتقاب غده، ولا يزال كذلك حتي ينقضي أجله، ويده صِفر من أي خير.”
― محمد الغزالي, جدد حياتك

“Maybe you could just keep that in reserve. Maybe just take a shot at startin over. I dont mean start again. Everybody’s done that. Over means over. It means you walk away. I mean, if everthing you are and everthing you have and everthing you have done has brought you at last to the bottom of a whiskey bottle or bought you a one way ticket on the Sunset Limited then you cant give me the first reason on God’s earth for salvagin none of it. Cause they aint no reason. And I’m goin to tell you that if you can bring yourself to shut the door on all of that it will be cold and it will be lonely and they’ll be a mean wind blowin. And them is all good signs. You dont say nothin. You just turn up your collar and keep walkin.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited

“لأنَّ لهم دين، يظُّنون أنهم مُعفوْن من أن تكون لهم أخلاق.”
― أمين معلوف

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Maybe she’d overreacted to the farmer’s conversation with his wife. If his wings had been clipped, Greentop would have been one of the ducks. Perhaps she should have sent him along with the other ducks when the leader asked her to give him up.”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly

“This baby looks more like a wild duck than one of us. If you don’t domesticate him, he’ll be in danger. He’ll forever be a wanderer like Straggler and end up killed.”
― Sun-mi Hwang, The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly

“For months and months no one would enter except the patient dust and, on sunny days, thin streaks of light. There it was, shut up in the dark, the little world of his childhood. His mother would keep it like that so that on his return he could find himself again there, still be a boy within its walls even after his long absence – but of course she was wrong in thinking that she could keep intact a state of happiness which was gone for ever or hold back the flight of time, wrong in imagining that when her son came back and the doors and windows were reopened everything would be as before.”
― Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe