Top 629 Quotes & Sayings by Egyptian Authors - Page 10

The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.

The best and most sustainable love story for markets is one based on a healthy and dynamic real economy that creates jobs and opportunities for many more people.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

I train hard every day, I don't know what the word 'impossible' means.

I used to do volunteer work in poor areas of Cairo, and people would gather their money together to get a satellite dish. You'd see them huddling around and for the first time seeing issues being debated on TV that had never been talked about before. And that is the biggest promoter of democracy you could possibly have.

You've got to have confidence that the universe is working out for you.

We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

By humanizing technology, we have this golden opportunity to reimagine how we connect with machines, and therefore, how we, as human beings, connect with one another.

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Children are wonderful!

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

Sanctions are a bad idea.

The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

I will treat everyone equally and be a servant of the Egyptian people.

Beating a record for the oldest World Cup player means that it's an achievement for my country before it's an achievement for me.

We all do our best. We hope we can win.

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

A lot of our communication has now become digital, and it does not mimic the natural way we have evolved to communicate with each other, so it's almost like we have this muscle, these social-emotional skills, and they're atrophying, right?

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Emotions are core to everything we do.

Aladdin' was one of the few things that I watched as a kid where I was like, 'Oh, that guy looks like me and has a similar culture to mine.'

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

I have chosen not to have children.

The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.

As a U.S. citizen, I cherish the First Amendment.

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

Guy Ritchie likes to ground things in realism.

I do not celebrate the appointment of women to high positions in regimes where cruelty is a favored tool of governance by a patriarchy; if they accept, they are nothing short of foot soldiers of that patriarchy and the violence it has instituted.

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.

Aladdin is a good soul. He is very selfless and usually does things for other people, but as he falls in love, he loses himself a little bit and starts to become someone that he is not. But he is a person with good intentions and has good people surrounding him who lead him back to where he is supposed to be.

I'm pretty good at going incognito.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don't need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn't speak any English at all, said, 'I know the only thing is to put him in an English boarding school. The food will be so horrible that he'll lose his weight.'

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

I have worked really hard to keep in shape.

Any political system can commit mistakes and any state can commit mistakes. What is most important is to acknowledge these mistakes and put them right as soon as possible and put those behind them into account, bring them to account.

Ever since I was a kid, I had been a Liverpool fan - they were my favourite Premier League club.

I like the Premier League I lot. I feel it has my style of football.

Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.