Top 381 Quotes & Sayings by Iraqi Authors - Page 3

I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food - I don't want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don't want the Kraft cheese, I want the niche cheese.

Despite all these obstacles and bad security situation, I have the energy and the resolve to train, but my head is full of ideas and it distracts me, and I need to focus.

I would never buy skin care from a makeup brand - full transparency. It feels like the opposite of makeup.

The Americans were never interested in what was best for the Shiites.

We succeeded in fighting terrorism - we will succeed in reconstruction.

You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.

I don't think I knew what 'Vogue' was as a child. I grew up in a little town in Tennessee, so that wasn't something we ever would think of.

I repeat my demand that the occupier leave the land of our beloved Iraq unconditionally, without retaining bases or signing agreements.

ISIS did not come down from the sky. They found the opportunity to grow, and the world allowed them to grow.

Advertising must respect the intelligence of its audience and if it does not prompt them to think, it will be instantly dismissed.

I want to shake things up, I want people to talk about it. It's really important that our brand flips the industry upside.

I've always been obsessed with beauty, but never realized I could actually make a career out of it.

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

Advertising at its worst will be killed by the Internet. And rightly so.

Anytime I think about my office, I think about creativity.

The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence.

It never gets easier to tell your story. Each time you speak it, you relive it.

We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq.

There were 2 million civilians in Mosul and 2,000 kidnapped girls there. There were thousands of families in Mosul that could have helped other girls, but they didn't. Women had to wear veils in Mosul. It would have been easy to smuggle Yazidi women out.

Deciding to be honest was one of the hardest decisions I have ever made, and also the most important.

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

Do not betray the people.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

I lived my childhood as a village girl in Kojo, south of Sinjar region. I did not know anything about the Nobel Peace Prize.

Every day, I feel like it's the day I was freed from Daesh. Every time I speak about my story, I feel like it's the day I was liberated.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

In Dubai, people respect you if you wear lashes to the grocery store. I've been at the gym at 5 in the morning and seen full glam, which, I think working out with your full makeup is just crazy.

Sometimes, you really need to trust your gut.

This is how I feel about cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. If people want to do it for themselves - it's fine. If people want to do it for the outside world, that's when it's not necessarily a healthy thing.

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

Being women behind a massively growing business is not an easy task, and the journey to find the right investors and to secure true partners has proven that.

I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.

I would die to do Meghan Markle's makeup.

The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real.

If you challenge the constitution and if you challenge the borders of Iraq and the borders of the region, this is a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders as well, which is a very dangerous escalation.

What's getting me excited is a lot of times Huda Beauty is that brand that people get when they are just starting with makeup and I hope we can get them to start being more artistic and more experimental.

All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

2016 is the year of eliminating corruption.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination.

If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat.

I never think that walls can protect you.

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

It's really important that we take away the shame associated with female hair loss and hair balding. It's just another beauty issue that we all can get through as soon as we start to feel more comfortable talking about it.

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

I can understand getting compared to the Kardashians.

We cannot afford to fight our neighbor, even if we disagree on many things.

Sometimes I feel that my message has not been clearly heard. But that is not my fault because I feel like too much is going on in terms of women being victims.

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

What can I say? I'm a Southern girl.

Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

The view that we hold in Iraq now is this - that democracy is associated with elections. I believe that elections are possible.