At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Quote by Naguib Mahfouz
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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Naguib Mahfouz Quotes
- There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
- I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
- I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
- History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
- If we reject science, we reject the common man.
- Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
- If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
- God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
- I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
- I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.
- I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.