Tawfiq Al Hakim Quotes

#1. I would like people to remember of me, how
inexhaustible was her mindfulness.

Mary Oliver

#2. Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.

Diana Gabaldon

#3. But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it provided intense community, and these people lived in incredible isolation.

Christine Jennings

#4. My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.

Andrew Marvell

#5. It is the customer that pays the wages

Henry Ford

#6. I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

Victoria Chang

#7. A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it.
A willow tree. Willow.

L.A. Weatherly

#8. There is always a state of anxiety, of searching and delving for style.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#9. Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.

Zig Ziglar

#10. When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#11. 1960, I was 20 years old, and I was leading the U.S. Open. Now, I wasn't leading by several strokes, but I was leading the U.S. Open and playing with Ben Hogan, had a very good chance to win, nine holes to go, I was leading. I was still leading with six holes to play.

Jack Nicklaus

#12. Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

Diana DeGette

#13. Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong.

Ben Folds

#14. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

Seth Godin

#15. What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#16. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#17. There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.

Annie Besant

#18. We can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.

Mary Parker Follett

#19. True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim