Enas H. Qasem > Enas H.'s Quotes

“صُـدفَـةً شاهـدتُـني
في رحلـتي منّي إِلَيْ.
مُسرِعاً قبّلتُ عينيَّ
وصافحـتُ يَـدَيْ
قُلتُ لي : عفـواً ..فلا وقتَ لَدَيْ .
أنَـا مضْطَـرٌ لأن أتْرُكَـني،
باللـهِ ..
سـلِّمْ لـي عَلَـيْ !”
― أحمد مطر

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“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

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
― Robert Orben

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“إذا خسر اليهود فإنهم سيعودون إلى البلاد التي أتوا منها، أما إذا خسرنا نحن، فسنخسر كل شيء”
― إبراهيم نصرالله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“قام عليّ، أدار ظهره للبحر، وأسرع الخطو ثم هرول ثم ركض مبتعدا عن الشاطىء والصخب والزحام. التفت وراءه فأيقن أن أحدا لم يتبعه، فعاد يمشي بثبات وهدوء، يتوغل فى الأرض، يتمتم: لا وحشة في قبر مريمة!”
― Radwa Ashour, ثلاثية غرناطة

“The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.”
― Hamza Yusuf

“Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“Desire is an attempt to feel the void.”
― Hamza Yusuf Hanson

“anything that we see in creation is due to reflected light. And all light comes from God.”
― Hamza Yusuf, Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart

“People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that. Well, I hope, for the sake of God, that I have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don't change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing and its knowledge should be expanding.”
― Hamza Yusuf