Quotes you probably never hea إقتباسات قد لا تعرفها

"I spent most of my life doing research. I don't need to anymore. I get it all  from Twitter."
Riad Tabbarah

 “I don’t want to get my hopes up about a porn star saving the republic. But I can scarcely think of a more satisfying way for this terrible era to end.” 

Norman Eisen 

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics

On the possibility that the porn star Stormy Daniels brings down Donald Trump:

 “You’ve got to beat the drum in life, God is already famous, but that doesn’t stop the preacher from ringing the church bells every morning.”

Chef Paul Bocuse

on the need for self-promotion

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
Henry Kissinger
Contributed by Edgar Sharuk

"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."

Bob Hope

Contributed by Edgar Sharuk

“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Contributed by Edgar Sharuk

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession . I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan
Contributed by Edgar Sharuk

"Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass-fail. Honor thy father and thy mother admits of gradation.
Kwame Anthony Appiah

I'm a man of faith. I only fear God, and my wife - sometimes.

 Lech Walesa

At the end of Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo,” Andrea Sarti, a student of the astronomer, says, “Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero.” To which Galileo replies: “No, Andrea. Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.”

“The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin

“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.”
Mark Twain

George Bernard Shaw to Churchill: "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one"
Reply of Churchill to Shaw: "Cannot possibly come to the first night, will attend the second... if there is one."

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Mark Twain

"My movies are more popular in France than back at home. The subtitles must be great."
Woody Allen 

A nation is “a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors.” 
Ernest Renan, French philosopher

It’s true that hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” 

Ronald Reagan

The United Nations “was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.”
 Dag Hammarskjold, second U.N. Secretary General

When he was 7 or 8, Justin Trudeau recalled, he overheard his parents giving away the secret of Santa Claus, and the next morning, he told a group of his friends in the schoolyard.

“Most of the kids ran off crying,” he said. “But one turned to me and said: ‘I know. I’ve always known. My mom told me when I was old enough to understand, because she couldn’t afford presents for me.’ ”  

Ian Austen, the New York Times, Oct. 20, 2015

Henry Kissinger once asked Chou En-Lai to theorize on what might have happened if Nikita Khrushchev had been assassinated instead of John F.Kennedy. After a moment's thought, Chou En-Lai answered: "I don't believe Mr. Onassis would have married Mrs. Khrushchev."

سأل هنري كيسينجر الرئيس الصيني شوان لاي ماذا كان سيكون لو تم اغتيال نيكيتا كورتشيف بدلاً من جون كينيدي. بعد لحظة تفكير أجاب: لا أعتقد أن السيد أوناسيس كان سيتزوج ارملة كروتشيف.

It is said that President Nixon, asked Chou En-Lai, who was an expert on the French Revolution, what he thinks was the result of that revolution on the world. Chou answered: "It is too early to tell." 

يقال أن الرئيس نيكسون سأل شوان لاي الذي كان خبيراً في تاريخ الثورة  الفرنسة عن رأيه في نتائج هذه الثورة على مجريات الامور في العالم. أجاب شوان لاي: "من المبكر تقييم ذلك."

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said :Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the Land.

Bishop Desmond Tutu

عندما جاء المبشرون الى أفريقيا كان معهم الكتاب المقدس وكانت معنا الارض. قالوا: "لنصلي." فاقفلنا عيوننا. وعندما فتحناها كان معنا الكتاب المقدس وكانت معهم الارض.

الاسقف ديزموند توتو

You have your Lebanon and I have mine. You have Lebanon and its dilemma, I have my Lebanon and its beauty.

Gibran Khalil Gibran

لكم لبنانكم ولي لبناني.‏ لكم لبنانكم ومعضلاته، ولي لبناني وجماله

جبران خليل جبران

Presidential Election ألانتخابات الرئاسية

Bcherry the village of Gibran

بشري ضيعة جبران

   

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a life time to paint like a child.

Pablo Picasso

إستغرقتني إربع سنوات لكي أرسم كما رافييل، ولكنني أمضيت حياتي لاتعلم كيف أرسم كالطفل
بابلو بيكاسو

A nation [Israel?] is “a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors.”

Ernest Renan (French philosopher of the 19^th century)

الدولة [إسرائيل؟] هي مجموعة من الناس تجمعهم نظرة خاطئة للتاريخ وكراهية لجيرانهم.

إرنست رينان (فيلسوف فرنسي من القرن التاسع عشر)

The U.N. was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.

Dag Hammarskjöld (The second U.N. Secretary-General)

[Editor’s note: It is now failing to even do that]

لم تخلق الامم المتحدة لتأخذ البشر الى الجنة، بل لتنقذ الانسانية من الجحيم.

داغ هامرشولد (ثاني أمين عام للامم المتحدة)

[تعليق المحرر: وهي اليوم تفشل حتى في ذلك]

George W. Bush said during the unveiling of his official portrait at the White House in 2012: Obama can now look at his picture in times of peril and ask, “What would George do?”

Aaron Blake, (The Washington Post)

عندما أزيح الستار عن الصورة  الرسمية لجورج بوش الابن في البيت الابيض سنة 2012 علق بوش قائلاً: سيتأمل أوباما هذه الصورة في الاوقات العصيبة ويتساءَل: "ماذا كان سيفعل جورج في هذه الحال؟"

أرون بلايك (الواشنطن بوست).

“The Americans will always do the right thing—after exhausting all the alternative possibilities”

 Winston Churchill

ألاميركيون يفعلون دائماً الشيء الصحيح ... بعد تجربة جميع الطرق الاخرى

وينستون تشرتشل

When asked “What is between you and the Muslim Brotherhood?” Bourguiba replied: Between us there are 14 centuries.

سئل بورغيبا: ما بينك وبين الاخوان المسلمين؟ أجاب: بيني وبينهم أربعة عشر قرناً.

There is a natural and necessary political map of the world which transcends these artificial states. This natural map of mankind would see nations established on the basis of language, culture, creed, race and tribe. The natural map of the Middle East has begun to assert itself.

H.G.Wells (English writer and novelist 1866-1946)  

هناك خارطة طبيعية للعالم تتجاوز الخريطة السياسية. ألخريطة الطبيعية للانسانية تكون فيها الدول مبنية على أساس اللغة والثقافة والاثنية والقبيلة. الخارطة الطبيعية للشرق الاوسط بدأت تفرض نفسها.

هربرت جورج ويلز (كاتب وروائي إنجليزي 1866-1946)

 

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