Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Lebanese Authors - Page 4

Never leave a pen around me - it will be gone.

I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness.

I believe everybody can make a change in the world.

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she'd call me in and say, 'Organize it for me.'

I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.

The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?

There are a lot of Arabs that are not Muslims. They are Christians; they are Jews. Muslim Arabs, especially in my family, are just so ecstatic that I get to play Jesus. They're so proud.

My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

I announce the resignation of the government, perhaps as the only way for Lebanon's main political blocs to assume their responsibilities and come together to pull Lebanon out of an unknown tunnel.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We show some more complicated cases. We show problems with fillers that were injected into the nose and the complications that caused. We show dog bites to the nose and the face and the reconstruction. There are some interesting stories, but they're more of learning lessons.

We all have hearts.

World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.

It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.

I was lucky because I used to live right next to a video-rental store. I used to spend so much time watching films. So I've seen a lot. I used to watch 'Dynasty' and 'Dallas' and have seen every kind of film. I've been influenced by everything I've seen.

Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution.

When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

I was gay before I began to play soccer over 40 years ago. It's been 28 years since a friend and I organized one of the first gay soccer teams in the world.

I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.

Hezbollah is in Syria and Iraq and Yemen, so people should not focus on Hezbollah that it's a Lebanese entity only, but it's something regional.

There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom.

I come from a specific area in Beirut where it's multicultural, and it's a culture that blends with multiple cultures - it's unbelievable lifestyle.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

If someone overdoes fillers or Botox, and many months have passed, they'll start looking more natural, like Dr. Dubrow.

People will take a picture of themselves and start looking at themselves and decide their neck looks weird. They see a celebrity selfie and wonder how she looks so good, and why her lips look so big.

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we have to do is work together.

All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.

A player should be disparaged if he gives less than his all, if he doesn't give 100%, no matter what shirt he's wearing. Whether it's your national team, your club, or little league. Yes, there are friendly matches, recreational ones, and so on, but sport in its essence is about giving your best.

It's been an amazing year of individual performances.

I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?

If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

Close friends consider me a literary snob.

There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

The most important, what I believe myself to do, is what is the interest of Lebanon, what is the interest of my country and my nation? And I'm going to do it fully.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.

Peace cannot be unilateral.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory.

The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think.

Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.

Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.