Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Lebanese Authors - Page 10

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.

As teenagers, a lot of us just did not want much to do with Arabic culture - we looked to the West.

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to.

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

When it comes to Sun Protection Factor, SPF, the higher, the better. Usually, between 30 and 50 is best.

I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?

When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones.

A solid moisturizing routine can do so many beneficial things for your complexion.

We open our door, and we are still committed to open our door for our brothers in Syria. But doesn't mean that we should not keep alone. The international community should really - should really share Lebanon the numbers of refugees and share Lebanon the cost of their living.

I look good. I lost a lot of weight.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

My job and my task as prime minister of Lebanon is to shield Lebanon from any instability like in Syria or Iraq or any other country that surrounds us. My task is to make sure that we have a country that is stable.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.

I believe in international justice. I believe it's important that you don't just turn the page without people being held to account.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.

Yes, there are obstacles as a woman; there is no doubt about it.

There's always something personal, no matter how big or small the story is.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

It would be very interesting to travel across the world.

I'm from Lebanon, and I've been exposed a lot to Syria.

Iran must stop meddling in the affairs of Arab countries, and we refuse to be taken by Iran to an axis against Arab countries.

Jesus was a teacher, in a way. I mean, essentially, Jesus was a teacher. He was teaching people. He was helping them see themselves for what they were. He was helping them see their power, their strength, their beauty, what they're capable of.

Lebanon first.

You can't argue with the truth.

The Lebanese Diaspora can play a role in helping to build our country's economy.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.

Hezbollah is not fighting for Syria. Hezbollah is not fighting for Iran. Hezbollah is fighting for Lebanon.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

Everyone is filtering their selfies to make them look perfect. We're seeing it more and more in my clinic - patients want to look like a photo they've tweaked. They show me the picture and say: 'This is the new me.' But many times it's not realistic.

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

There are only two ways to remove the president - if he violates the constitution or commits high treason. How could anyone accuse me of treason after I had terminated Israel's occupation of South Lebanon in 2000.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the view of the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, rockets are equal to stones.

If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far.

I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

I have a lot of enemies: extremists and the Syrian regime.

Without justice you won't have stability.

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

My brother Max made my desk. It's a masterpiece, like a piano. Everybody who comes in my office loves my desk.

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

You take a tube of the patient's blood, extracting platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, from it. It's yellow in color, but it does all kinds of good things for the body: It speeds up healing, fills out the face. I spray it into wounds and use it in rhinoplasty.

The regime of Bashar al-Assad will inevitably go down. And its collapse will be loud not only in Syria but across the Arab world.

Lebanon is a small country, and we have a saying: as long as you know your size, you know, just try to protect what you have.