El Salam Bank Quotes & Sayings

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just as the pleasure principle itself, indeed, under the influence of the external world, changed into the more modest reality principle -, if a man thinks himself happy merely to have escaped unhappiness or to have survived his suffering, and if in general the task of avoiding suffering pushes that of obtaining pleasure into the background. — Sigmund Freud

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness — Dante Alighieri

Make no mistake, I always want to win, but I never fight with an opponent. My fight is within me it is the struggle to be the best I can be at whatever I do. — John Wooden

I am a bad actor."
"Not for me or my camera. I see the person, not some idea he wants to make himself into."
"I'm all idea today."
"I definitely don't see it."
"I'm playing the idea of death. Look closely," he said. — Don DeLillo

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way. — John Cornyn

I never talked to anyone about my reading; the need to share came afterwords. — Alberto Manguel