Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Marwan Muasher

This will only strengthen our resolve to find a solution to all the problems of the region.... (We) express our sympathies to the victims of the terrorists inside Saudi Arabia and our condemnation of this act.

Elliott Abrams

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.

Elliott Abrams

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

Wayne White

We've all seen the progression of ideologies in Arab society,

Ghassan Khatib

We believe that the Palestinian leadership should be treated by the Israeli government like they treat other Arab governments.

Henry Garza

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

Jamal Qureshi

This really comes down to what can Saudi Arabia do.

King Abdullah

would be a constructive step towards closing the ranks of the Arab nation.

Denis Simonneau

We condemn the incidents that happened in Damascus and Beirut on Sunday and led to fire and ransacking of several diplomatic and consular representations.

Dick Cheney

Was it in 1983, when terrorists hit our embassy that spring in Beirut and killed several Americans, including the CIA station chief?

Rashad Janahi

The Beirut Gate placement also marks our entry into markets outside the GCC in the region. In line with our charter to offer unique investment mechanisms, we are also in the process of developing instruments that will tap growth opportunities in international markets.

Rabih Alameddine

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

Reem Acra

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Carol Mann

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

Carlos Ghosn

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

Carlos Ghosn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God

Randy Nixon

We want to see people come to this meeting who want to work, who want to see it happen.

Omar Epps

We're in Hollywood. I meet people like that every day.

Pat Schaumann

We staff about 4,000 meetings a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Marwan Kanafani

We have been pushed to this situation by the positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Winston Smith

We said a prayer for the incoming prime minister and his government.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Pete Eliades

We have no problem if they tax everybody. But they don't. ... We just want the public to know the truth.

Lily Tomlin

The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.

Christine Callies

The problem with the tech sector is not so much a fundamental problem as a valuations problem.

Miriam Santiago

The problem with the Americans is that they are overpaid, oversexed, and over here.

Joe Duffy

The problem with security standards is that there are so many of them.

Hitesh Sheth

The problem with psychiatry is, it doesn't know what the problem is.

Kent Conrad

The reality here is we've got a problem here and it's a big problem.

Brandi Carlile

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Dan McCanta

We know by season what some of our problems could be.

Jeff Bambule

We have to get ready now for Plainfield South. They are another scrappy, tough team. We'll have to be ready.

Natalie Chanin

We have so many reasons to be here tonight. I'm also ready to do some shopping!

Charles de Lint

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Jeremy Shockey

We know he's up there smiling, ... But in the same sense, he's probably saying, 'Get ready for San Francisco.'

Lee Johnson

We'd get the shack arranged, get it ready to pull, and would find more damage, ... They used every trick in the book, but they got it moved.

Charlaine Harris

I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!

David Richardson

We stand ready to support any organization that shares Scout values.

Liane Balaban

I want to be an actor, and I am being an actor. I'm not ready to run off on a road trip. Yet.

Brett Gardner

Be ready to hit; get good pitches to hit.

Carol Vorderman

I cannot do the piece-of-talking-meat thing, the 'Here's your money, wear a pretty dress and take the cheque.' I'm not made that way. I have to be as good as I can be at whatever I do.

Carlos Mencia

When I go onstage, I don't know what I'm going to say. I don't know what's going to come out of my mouth. It's one of those questions where any and everything is possible. I literally could be talking about somebody I was hanging out with two seconds ago or something from the news. Literally, there's really no rhyme or reason for it. I want to be free flowing like that.

Carlos Ghosn

Talking about stepping down in five years is frankly not a topic of particular actuality now.

C. S. Lewis

People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them.

C. S. Lewis

Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There.

Agnes Repplier

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

Aaron Stanford

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

Alan K. Simpson

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.

Charlotte Bronte

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.