Egypt Quotes - Page 13

• We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Turkeys, Iraq

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We view Egypt as a good friend of America. We are in constant touch with them. We provide them economic and military assistance as part of our relationship.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Good Friend, Views

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Talent, Resources, Feels

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• When I give a lecture on Egypt there are thousands of people in the lecture hall, so obviously they would like to go to science and they would love to do science, but you really have to get the correct science base in order for them to interact.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Order, People, Giving

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think the Nobel Prize helps for a number of reasons. Number one, if I can be frank, there is these people will feel by getting a Nobel Prize that I'm one of them, that it is possible to contribute on the world map of science and technology. And the other thing also which I'm hoping for is that the government in Egypt is willing and interested in promoting science and technology and this is an ideal time now to be able to do something.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Technology, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues from coming on Egypt? This is the modern "Egypt", Mr. Sanders. Let the Black man go and give us justice, and these things that are whipping you today will start diminishing, and you will get a longer period of time.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Giving, Justice

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Men, Special

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I have travelled a great deal - to Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt - and can very well differentiate between moderate Muslims and Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Iran, Islam, Afghanistan

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Man's history has been graven on the rock of Egypt, stamped on the brick of Assyria, enshrined in the marble of the Parthenon-it rises before us a majestic presence in the piled up arches of the Coliseum-it lurks an unsuspected treasure amid the oblivious dust of archives and monasteries-it is embodied in all the looms of religions, of races, of families.

  Charles Thomas Newton

  Science, Men, Race

  Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Nature, Flower

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• When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.

  Nabil Elaraby

  Government, Doe, Violence

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• I'm very careful not to isolate Israel on this but to make this part of a transformed foreign policy where we apply the same standards across the board. So it's not just Israel. It's also Saudi Arabia, it's also Egypt. It's where there are massive and systemic violations of human rights and international law.

  Jill Stein

  Rights, Israel, Law

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they want to do something to express their support for what they've heard. The idea that they were taking orders is a particularly Western idea.

  Robert Fisk

  Country, Order, Ideas

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 1, 2001.

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• We find that alchemy has to do with magicians or magic and may even have roots in the Chaldean people who lived in the land that we now call Iraq.Abraham emerged and took a flock of people with him into Egypt. They were later called the Hebrews because of the valleys that they came out of. The alchemy that they saw was a transformative power within the individuals to affect the "out there" reality - and that, of course, is the basis of shamanism and is the basis for most magical and so-called Third World belief systems.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Reality, Land, Roots

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Writing, Practice, Medicine

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Mother, Dream, Children

  Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sorry, Book, Thinking

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• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, School, Boys

  "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

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• Egypt loved the lotus becuase it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name-two syllables, one high, one sweet- summon up the innumerable smiles, tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

  Anita Diament

  Dream, Sweet, Names

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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

  Marian Keyes

  Nice, Princess, Eye

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• Why lily?” “It’s the most sacred and beautiful of all flowers in Egypt. They bloom in mud and shine in the darkness like a gift from the gods to remind you that no matter how bad something is, it will get better. That no matter how dark the night, the light will come for you. If you partake of them, they have the power to calm and soothe you, and to heal your wounds.” When he spoke his next words, they were laced with emotion and sincerity. “You are, and will always be, my sšn.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Flower, Dark

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.154, Hachette UK

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• Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

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• It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

  George W. Bush

  Kuwait, Important, Saudi Arabia

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• I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel? Where would the Reformation have gone if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn't polls or public opinion alone of the moment that counts.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Jesus, Taken

  "Harry S. Truman in his own words: by William Hillman; pictures by Alfred Wagg".

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• Egypt firmly and strongly condemns such attacks on civilians and soldiers that led to the deaths of a large number of innocent victims.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Numbers, Soldier, September 11

  "Israel mourns, Palestinians celebrate / Terrorism against U.S. resonates in Mideast" by Danielle Haas, Dina Shiloh, www.sfgate.com. September 12, 2001.

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