Maktabi Adec Quotes & Sayings

With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help. — Otto Von Bismarck

I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Poetry is what you can't translate. Art is what you can't define. Film is what you can't explain. But we're going to try, anyway. — James Monaco

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. — Bruce Lee

Gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals. — Ali Smith

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that. — Oscar Wilde

I know i can, be what i wanna be, if i work hard at it, I'll be where i wanna be — Nas

To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it. — Martha Beck

Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground. — William Stone

In families children tend to take on stock roles, as if there were hats hung up in some secret place, visible only to the children. Each succeeding child selects a hat and takes on that role: the good child, the black sheep, the clown, and so forth. — Ellen Galinsky

They made love then. Kassad, at twenty-three standard years, had been in love once and had enjoyed sex many times. He thought he knew the way and the why of it. There was nothing in his experience to that moment which he could not have described with a phrase and a laugh to his squadmates in the hold of a troop transport. With the calm, sure cynicism of a twenty-three-year-old veteran he was sure that he would never experience anything that could not be so described, so dismissed. He was wrong. He could never adequately share the sense of the next few minutes with anyone else. He would never try. — Dan Simmons