My Favorite Quotes اقتباسات أحبها

In His name, Almighty Allah, we begin بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

My Favorite Quotes اقتباسات أحبها

Those quotes, which I collected from my friends’ status updates on Facebook, books and movies mostly, got “too much” for my FB profile page, and I need to keep them in someplace close.

هذه الاقتباسات جمعت أغلبها من “تحديثات الحالة” على موقع فيس بوك و من بطون الكتب و الافلام, صارت كثيرة على صفحتي في فيس بوك و أحتاج الى إبقائها قريبة لأنقحها باستمرار و أتذكر ما فيها من حكم

May the dreams of your past become the reality of your future

You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future

Good luck is often with the man who doesn’t include it in his plans

The easy day was yesterday!

Tomorrow is the first day in the rest of my life

Come whatever!

It doesn’t matter how fast you run if you are running to the wrong direction

Know you priorities and work according to them; no one says on his deathbed ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office’!

You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her

Hearts can be very fragile…

No heroes amongst thieves

It’s not easy for a stupid man not to do a stupid act!

When a man got nothing to lose, that’s when he’s most dangerous

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When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you. -English proverb

Talk doesn’t cook rice. -Chinese proverb

Easy come, easy go! -English proverb

The promise of a freeman is a debt he owes. -Arabic proverb

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Life isn’t worth living unless you’re willing to take some big chances and go for broke. -Eliot Wiggington

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. -Abraham Lincoln

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito. -Betty Reese

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. -Henry Ward Beecher

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle. -Bill Clinton

How much of human life is lost in waiting. -Ralph Emerson

Nothing is a sure game until you’ve actually done it. -George Miller

Observe the popular mood among Palestinians. If people do not want resistance, there will be no resistance. The Intifadah does not start or end at the click of a button. -Khaled Mesh’al

It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. -W. Edwards Deming

Experience is not what happens to you, it’s what you do with what happened to you. -Aldous Huxley

Doctors told me I’ll never walk again, but my mother told me I will walk again… so I believed my mother. -Wilma Rudolph/Fastest woman on Earth

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. -Alan Kay

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -Henry Ford

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. -James Baldwin

Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it’ll live its whole life believing that it’s stupid. -Einstein

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. -Harun Yahya

What do you desire? What makes you itch? … Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way. -Alan Watts

Misery is comfortable. It’s why so many people prefer it. Happiness takes effort. -David Wong

There’s a difference between growing up and getting older. Think about about what you’ve been doing in your previous years.

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Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for. A man can stand up. -Closing of Chapter 12/Johnny Tremain

Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. -Michael Corleone/The Godfather II

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends. -Don Altobello/The Godfather III

Even the strongest man needs friends. -Don Lucchesi/The Godfather III

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. -Don Lucchesi/The Godfather III

Sometimes a man meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. -Master Oogway/Kung Fu Panda

You can lose your money, you can spend all of it, and if you work hard you get it all back. But if you waste your time you’re never gonna get it back. -Del/Without a Paddle

In the land of blind, the one eyed man is the leader. -A pusher/Minority Report

No cause is lost if there’s but one fool left to fight for it. -William Turner/Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

A good decision, if made for the wrong reasons, can be a bad decision. -Governor Swann/Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

It’s funny what a man will do to forestall his final judgment. -Capt. Jack Sparrow/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. -Capt. Jack Sparrow/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Every man has a price he’s willingly to accept. Even for what he hoped never to sell. -Lord Beckett/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

For what we want most, there’s a cost must be paid in the end. -Tia Dalma/Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

It’s so easy to assassinate a politician, almost anyone can assassinate a politician, just not anyone can get away with it. -Joe/Bangkok Dangerous

It doesn’t matter if the whole world loves your ideas, that doesn’t make them good. -Lois/Family Guy

Money and women, the reasons to make most mistakes in life. -The Detective/Slumdog Millionaire

… that’s ’cause they’re all about where people come from. The only thing that’s important is where somebody’s going. -John Dillinger/Public Enemies

This is our country… we [were] here long before you came, long after you [are] gone… -M’Ed/Blood Diamond

Percy, if you don’t wake up tomorrow, if it turns out to be your last day on earth… would you be proud of what you’ve done in this life? Because if you ain’t, you better start getting square. -Percy/Legion

Being brave doesn’t mean you have to look for trouble -Mufasa/The Lion King

Things always get worse before they get better. -Alfred/The Dark Knight

Not anyone can become an artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. -Critic Ego/Ratatouille

Soldiers fight for a cause. You don’t have one, that makes you poacher. -Sir Robert Loxley/Robin Hood

Get busy living, or get busy dying! -Andy Dufresne/The Shawshank Redemption

How do you know you’re in love if you’ve never been in it before? -Leon/Leon: The Professional

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. -William Wallace/Braveheart

People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. -V/V for Vendetta

You see, the thing is… they’ll never beat you, if you stick together and stay loyal. -Michael Lynch/Ordinary Decent Criminal

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‘Cause we are the only ones, we will get up
And we are aware, ’cause we’ve been through it
‘Cause we are the only ones, we will carry each other on our own. -Saosin/Collapse

It’s hard to accept what you don’t understand. And it’s hard to launch without knowing how to land. And how, when it burns, you can’t change a thing. You can soften the blow, but you can’t stop the sting. -Army of Me/Going Through Changes

I thought my heart could never break. Now I know that’s one big mistake! -Blue/One Love

and these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They’re quite aware of what they’re going through. -David Bowie/Changes

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a soldiers dies but once. -2Pac/If I Die 2 Nite

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بالعربية:

” … كان الحب حباً تتعرف به الرجولة إلى الأنوثة في قيود و شروط, فلما صار حراً بين الرجولة و الأنوثة انقلب حيلة تغتر بها إحداهما الأخرى, و متى صار الأمر إلى قانون الحيلة فقد خرج من قانون الشرف, و يرجع هذا الشرف نفسه كما نراه, ليس إلا كلمة يحتال بها.”
” … و في تلك الاحوال لا يكون الرجل إلا مغفلاً في رأي المرأة – إذ هو أحبها, و لم يكن محتالاً حيلة مثله على مثلها (أي أن المرأة تعتقد انه مغفل ما لم يتحايل عليها بحيلة يكسب بها قلبها), و يظل في رأيه مغفلاً حتى يخدعها و يستزلها (أي أنه يظل معتقداً بأنه مغفل حتى يخدعها), فإذا فعل كان عندها نذلاً لأنه فعل … و هذه حرية رابعة في لغة المرأة الحرة و الزواج الحر و الحب الحر!” -مصطفى صادق الرافعي/وحي القلم

“إن ترمني نكبات الدهر عن كثب -:- ترم امرأ ً غير رعديد و لا نكس” -المتنبي

“على الدفاتر, خلفت الصبا نتفاً. وفي الفصول تركت القلب أجزاءً على الطباشير. شيء من دم… عجباً! تبدو الطباشير رغم الجرح بيضاءً.” -غازي القصيبي

“لا أدعي أني قلت هنا الحقيقة كاملة, ولكني أرجو أن كل ما قلته هنا حقيقة.” -غازي القصيبي

“كنت أطيع أوامره كأنه سيد عظيم (عن عامل صهر المعادن الألماني), كنت أخدمه حتى في وقت أكله, مع أنني من أسرة ساموراي, و أسرة الساموراي هي من أشرف و أعرق الأسر في اليابان. لكنني كنت أخدم اليابان, و في سبيل اليابان يهون كل شيء.” -تاكيو أوساهيرا/قصة نهضة اليابان و تعلمهم أسرار الصناعات

“تذكر أن أمة من الأمم لم تقم تمثالاً واحداً لناقد.” -الموسيقار سيبلوس

“رحم الله امرءً عرف زمانه فاستقامت طريقته.” -عبدالله بن المبارك

“إن الجالس على الأرض لا يسقط, و الناس لا يرفسون كلباً ميتاً. لكنهم يغضبون عليك إذا فقتهم صلاحاً أو علماً أو أدباً أو مالاً.” -عائض القرني/لا تحزن

“لو شك الناس كلهم في الحق ما شككت فيه وحدي.” -سليمان الداراني

عمال مناجم الألماس يحفرون يومياً عشرات الأطنان من الأتربة و يغربلونها, لكنهم في النهاية يحصلون على ألماسة واحدة صغيرة من كل هذه الكمية.

“إن من لا يبذل نفسه لهذه الأرض, لا يقاوم ولا يقاتل من أجلها, لا يستحق أن يعيش عليها.” -عبدالرحمن النجار

“إن أول مرحلة في الهزيمة هي تقبل الواقع المفروض علينا و و اليأس من تغييره.” -عبدالرحمن النجار

“المسلم لم يتخل مطلقا عن عقيدته, فلقد ظل مؤمناً, ولكن عقيدته تجردت من فاعليتها, لأنها فقدت إشعاعها الاجتماعي.” -مالك بن نبي

“ليست المشكلة أن نعلم المسلم عقيدة هو يملكها, وإنما المهم أن نرد إلى هذه العقيدة فاعليتها, وقوتها الإيجابية, وتأثيرها الاجتماعي.” -مالك بن نبي

“إن مشكلتنا ليست في أن نبرهن للمسلم على وجود الله بقدر ما هي في أن نشعره بوجوده.” -مالك بن نبي