Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Egyptian Authors - Page 2

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

I always think about the small details because I need to improve more and more.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Egypt does not possess rich natural resources. Its agricultural area is relatively small - less than 10 per cent of the total land. Its growth relies on tourism, Suez Canal tariffs, and foreign investment.

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history.

My first professional gig was on a show called 'Nikita,' and I played Al Qaeda No. 2. At that time I had to take those roles because I just wanted to get my foot in the door.

You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image.

We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.

I have a speed, and I have to use it when I play against someone who gives you the space.

If I had a choice between the Champions League and the Golden Boot, then of course it would be the Champions League - no doubt the Champions League.

Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

As more and more of our lives become digital, we are fighting a losing battle trying to curb our usage of devices in order to reclaim our emotions. So what I'm trying to do instead is to bring emotions into our technology and make our technologies more responsive.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Each game, we try to win the three points, but every game, I want to score and help the team.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Too many on the Left are earnest about nothing at all, sadly. They've been rendered spineless by snarkiness - not least on Twitter.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

When I say, 'I am supporting the police or the army,' I am talking about the army in general and the police in general. In general, those institutions are good institutions.

Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.

Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies.

Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment.

Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.

All religions, if you shrink them down, are all about controlling women's sexuality.

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil.

When Mubarak does die, he will be remembered as the most bland of those military men turned dictators: compare him with Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Anwar Sadat. The legacies most associated with him are a network of bridges and highways and 'stability.'

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

I sleep at night; I do not think about anything. I put everything in my bag and go to sleep. Whatever you can do to me, it does not affect me. I started my life, my own life. I did not inherit it.

My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

There is no power above people power.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I always like to score in the big games.

For the next three years, we're going to see different economies work out different problems. For European economies, especially Greece, it would be through default.

Everyone is expecting something in each game I'm playing. I don't have to score in every game, but I want to do my best. I want to give everything for the club, for my teammates, and myself also.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

I have to be natural and not doing anything fake, not lying on social media, in interviews and life.

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.

To write about the hijab is to step into a minefield. Even among those who share my cultural and faith background, opinions veer from those who despise it as a symbol of backwardness to those for whom religion begins and ends with that piece of cloth.

If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what we are constantly bombarded with in terms of media leads you to a creation of 'the Other' and a dehumanization of 'the Other,' and it's very much an us-versus-them conversation.

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.