Quotes by Lebanese Authors - Page 9

Affordable Care Act" roll out isn't Obama's fault. It's what happens when you elect a President without any real-world business experience.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Make your money on the buy, not the sell; this is true in any investment whether it's real estate, business, or the stock market.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Building a business is like creating a picture & striving to be picture perfect in everything you do.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
How you gather, manage and use intel in life determines whether you win or lose. That's the # 1 rule for the mavericks in business.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.
Samer Chidiac
I may not be the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick the smartest people to do business with and size them up very fast.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
I realised when it came to men, I did not pick the beautiful or the correct. I picked the wrong one.
Rabih Alameddine
Anyone who is portraying Israel as a friend is a servant of Israel.I warn some sides against turning enemies into friends and friends into enemies.Some in the Arab world try to present "Israel" as a friend and Iran as a foe.Yet such conspiracies will fail. "Israel" has not been helping because of its hostile and aggressive nature. The Arab world is realising day after day that Iran is a friend, which was highlighted in Iran's support to Gaza and Lebanon.
Hassan Nasrallah
As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.People nowadays don't know the true meaning of friendship and loyalty.People always suddenly miss you more once they see how much happier you are without them.Learn the real from the fake....and don't worry about the mistakes you make.There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.The only people worthy to be in your life are the ones that help you through the hard times and laugh with you after the hard times pass.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember...the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Your best friends should bring out the best in you. If they don't, lose them; they are no friends.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence
Kahlil Gibran
My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. I would not have thee believe in what I say nor trust in what I do-for my words are naught but thy own thoughts in sound and my deeds thy own hopes in action. When thou sayest, “The wind bloweth eastward,” I say, “Aye it doth blow eastward”; for I would not have thee know that my mind doth not dwell upon the wind but upon the sea. Thou canst not understand my seafaring thoughts, nor would I have thee understand. I would be at sea alone. When it is day with thee, my friend, it is night with me; yet even then I speak of the noontide that dances upon the hills and of the purple shadow that steals its way across the valley; for thou canst not hear the songs of my darkness nor see my wings beating against the stars-and I fain would not have thee hear or see. I would be with night alone. When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell-even then thou callest to me across the unbridgeable gulf, “My companion, my comrade,” and I call back to thee, “My comrade, my companion”-for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee visit it. I would be in Hell alone. Thou lovest Truth and Beauty and Righteousness; and I for thy sake say it is well and seemly to love these things. But in my heart I laughed at thy love. Yet I would not have thee see my laughter. I would laugh alone. My friend, thou art good and cautious and wise; nay, thou art perfect-and I, too, speak with thee wisely and cautiously. And yet I am mad. But I mask my madness. I would be mad alone. My friend, thou art not my friend, but how shall I make thee understand? My path is not thy path, yet together we walk, hand in hand.
Kahlil Gibran
Think like a maverick, Fight like a gladiator, Love with a humble heart and Die for a cause worth dying for... Be a "game changer"....The basic tenets of my life philosophy.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Life is about execution rather than purpose.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Live Everyday with No Regrets, So you don't Regret it One day.
Samer Chidiac
The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just died, your companion has abandoned you, but don't you dare make an inappropriate sound, because your family is around. No one to touch you the way he did, no one to understand you, no one to hug you to sleep, but don't dare allow your face to show a glint of grief. The cutting pain of feeling alone amid loved ones.
Rabih Alameddine
She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.
Rabih Alameddine
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran
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
The best relationship is when you can completely act yourself and they can still love you for who you are.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
Kahlil Gibran
When someone talks about their problems, it doesn't just mean they're complaining, it means they trust you enough to tell you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.
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
The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Kahlil Gibran
Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self.Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses her face, and the echo of your faintest cry becomes a spring and an autumn in her breast.And life is veiled and hidden, even as your greater self is hidden and veiled. Yet when Life speaks, all the winds become words; and when she speaks again, the smiles upon your lips and the tears in your eyes turn also into words. When she sings, the deaf hear and are held; and when she comes walking, the sightless behold her and are amazed and follow her in wonder and astonishment.
Kahlil Gibran
What I learned on my own I still remember
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
Kahlil Gibran
Praying because you're afraid is not like praying because you have faith. Faith and fear never meet. If you are faithful and still feel scared, it's whether you're not praying right or not praying at all.
Sandra Chami Kassis
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
Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.
Kahlil Gibran
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
Kahlil Gibran
And she would like to cry, but she is unable to; and she would like to disappear but she won't; and she would like to stop feeling this despair and so she thinks that she will go to the movies see friends shop eat barter fuck the neighbor's husband: she is like a sow in her mud (of loneliness) and covers herself in it and what of it--it is the disease of her country, and the late night television shows the magazines and movies in cheap collusion with it.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.
Sandra Chami Kassis
What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
Kahlil Gibran
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
People keep asking me ...How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use "power words" and see for yourself.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.
Kahil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
Kahlil Gibran
Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books." (p. 5)
Rabih Alameddine
I can relate to Marguerite Duras even though I'm not French, nor have I been consumed by love for an East Asian man. I can life inside Alice Munro's skin. But I can't relate to my own mother. My body is full of sentences and moments, my heart resplendent with lovely turns of phrases, but neither is able to be touched by another.
Rabih Alameddine
I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.
Rabih Alameddine
All hen are created equal but some have more feather than others.
Viken Berberian
The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes
Rawi Hage
We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.
Sandra Chami Kassis
Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.
Kahlil Gibran
Just because the past didn't turn out like you wanted it to, doesn't mean the future can't be better than you ever imagined.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
The future belongs to those who innovate.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
For Lebanon to have any future, gotta adopt a resolute policy v/s terrorism. Whoever plots against the land should bear the consequences.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past."And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future."And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death will change all things.
Kahlil Gibran