Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 10

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.
Rawi Hage
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
Rabih Alameddine
It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Kahlil Gibran
Right or wrong. When you stand on a principle..you're never wrong.
Sandra Chami Kassis
As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart.
Joumana Haddad
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil Gibran
Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day.
Rabih Alameddine
You know you’re a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.
Amin Maalouf
I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran
Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Kahlil Gibran
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
Never worry about what you can't control...Focus on what you can.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
Kahlil Gibran
Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ...the People.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Change brings opportunity.
Nido R. Qubein
Normal is gross
Jack Barakat
Never underestimate the hidden power of one very determined person. There is nothing more powerful than determination and persistence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.
Kahlil Gibran
Sophia could just as well have gutted me. In Allah's name, I drank beer for you. I dismantled my entire value system of holding Allah's word above all for you. I reinterpreted my Islamic teachings to justify being with you.
Sam Wazan
Don’t tell me what I want to hear. Tell me the truth. It may hurt, but it definitely won’t hurt more than the feeling that I was told something out of pity, not out of honesty. If you mean it, say it. If you don’t, keep your words until the right person is standing in front of you. If words are said too many times, they become cheap, and I only deserve to hear what is valuable
Najwa Zebian
There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?
Rabih Alameddine
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
Kahlil Gibran
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
Kahlil Gibran
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
Nido Qubein
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
Kahlil Gibran
The "us versus them" mindset coupled with our social nature implies that we have an innate need to belong to clearly defined in-groups.
Gad Saad
Just because it's something original, eccentric or you're not used to it; doesn't mean it's wrong.
Sandra Chami Kassis
If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Just as people asked ‘Why do they hate us?’ after 9/11, one evening I asked my father, ‘Why did they do this to us?’ He took a long breath and paused, deeply concerned about what he was about to say. ‘The Muslims bombed us because we are Christians. They want us dead because they hate us’ This hate was not because we had armies in the Middle East or because we supported Israel or for any of the reasons people easily turn to today. It was because we were Christians, infidels. As a child, I was just too young to understand all the political implications, but I understood one thing: people wanted to kill me simply because I was a Christian.
Brigitte Gabriel
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life....
Ziad K. Abdelnour
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
Kahlil Gibran
I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?
Rabih Alameddine
Any definition of a successful life must include service to others.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.
Hanna Abi Akl
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for wealth creation
Ziad K. Abdelnour
God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men's shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man's god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light.
Mikhail Naimy
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
Kahlil Gibran
Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.
Rabih Alameddine
She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.
Rabih Alameddine
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes you can't walk your dream journey. Find a way!
Samer Chidiac