في تلك اللحظة عشت هنيهات من الطمأنينة الغامرة. فما عاد شيء يقدر على أن يصيبني. أن أخرج، أن أبقى، أن أنجو، أن أموت؛ سيان عندي. فلسوف أكون من الناجين ما دامت لي القدرة على الصلاة وعلى التواصل مع الخالق. لقد بلغت أخير عتبة الأبدية، هناك حيث لا وجود لحقد البشر وخستهم و صغارتهم


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BEN MENDELSOHN
'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN
Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN
I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN
You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN
You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN
It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN
I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI
It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE
Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH
Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE
Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH
One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON
Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON
I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER
Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI
I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW
Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR
Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE
Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON
I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR
I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT
Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS
Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO
Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO
Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO
The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO
President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO
There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO
I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD
There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON
I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK
Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN
The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO
I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON
From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT
'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO
If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE
We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON
I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK
Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE
In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK
We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON
When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN
There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT
We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY
This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON
A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON
A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON
It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON
A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON
'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR
The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE
Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE
Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE
There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy ...
BEN JONSON
Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT
Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON
Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER
If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON
Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND
We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN
I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY
I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT
In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT
Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT
Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN
I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH
But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN
If he were To be made honest by an act of parliament I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, ...
BEN JONSON
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN
It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY
than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY
Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON
Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN
We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI
Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON
'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON
Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN
In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT
You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON
I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY
I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN
Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO