Taha Farosh > Taha's Quotes

“Life is a successive symphony of losses.”
― Isaac Asimov, Nemesis

“The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't”
― Jack Higgins, Night of the Fox

“The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world.”
― Alistair MacLean, The Last Frontier

“Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.”
― Robert Frost

“There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End

“We can be sure of talent; We can only pray for genius”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End

“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
― Joseph Heller

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
― Joseph Heller

“The law makes the silliest damned fuss about death. People die by the thousands everyday; but simply because someone has had the energy and enterprise to assist old D'Courtney to his demise, the law insists on turning him into an enemy of the people. I think it's idiotic, but please don't quote me.”
― Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man

“Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn

“Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.”
― isaac asimov, Robots and Empire

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“What we gain in the straightaways, we lose in the roundabouts. That's the way the universe works. We've just got to fool it somehow.”
― Isaac Asimov, Forward the Foundation

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“And it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“A bad driver is only safe until she met another bad driver”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Brain, Character, Soul - Only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“What is the life of a human being—a drop of dew, a flash of lightning? This is so sad, so sad.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man

“What, my friends, is the conquest of one nation by another? It is meaningless. Each produces the same result. But those fierce fights, when in the dawn of the ages the cave-dwellers held their own against the tier folk, or the elephants first found that they had a master, those were the real conquests - the victories that count.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

“Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of Von Neumann’s advice. It’s made me a very happy man ever since.”
― Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat