Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
Abby Wambach
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
Rachel Cusk
When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'
Kat Graham
The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
Marc Andreesen
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose
You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
Tom Atkins
With trials, you become wiser. You learn more about yourself and the people surrounding you. Me personally, I've never been the type of person to judge anyone over wrongdoing, no matter what it is. I'm just not a judgmental person.
Adrian Peterson
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
Daniel Berrigan
I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.
David Gray
It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.
Niels Bohr
Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Naguib Mahfouz