Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Lebanese Authors - Page 7

I am against any reconciliation with Israel.

There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

The interference of Iran affects us all.

I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.

To make any endeavor successful, you have to put that time and energy into something and work long hard days. Whether it's on the weekends or at night. You have to be constantly looking to improve things.

Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

I want people to have conversations, to have controversy because it creates dialogue and builds bridges.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

I want to keep a luxurious look in daywear.

Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you.

Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

I sing in Arabic as a statement. It's art, and it's a challenge.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

The younger folks, the Gen Z-ers and millennials, might abuse their skin a little bit, and because they're so young they aren't intentionally taking care of their skin to protect it in the long run.

I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.

Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.

Democracy is dead in the Maldives.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

I think I'm being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world's other countries, probably 95%.

Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought.

Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

Obviously it's always hard when you tell a patient you can't help them, because maybe it's a physical constraint with the surgery, but in regards to telling a patient that they're not realistic and they're not appropriate psychological candidates, we're pretty used to it.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

It's interesting to be at once an insider and outsider. It's a way of learning how to find your way freely without the need of conforming or belonging.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.

I will not be drawn to building relations with the Syrian regime, which does not want me.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

I'm sure that everyone who goes into fashion always dreams of having a perfume, since it completes the brand and exposes it in a different way.

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Having nasal surgery while you're an active boxer is like breast surgery, a lift right before you have kids. What's the point?

In Lebanon, there are completely different opinions and values in one country in terms of religion, modernity, tradition, East and West - which allows for a kind of intellectual development not available anywhere else.

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

Skincare is what's going to help you look fresh, plumped, and toned.

How cool it is to see a bride walking down the aisle with a beautiful long gown with beautiful layers of tulle and organza, unveiling their mini dress at the party?

We could do so much if we concentrated on the business community and created jobs. If we make this our focus, a stronger economy and politics will follow.

I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.

The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

People are so accustomed now to social networking. Now everybody has custom-made news for him or her. So everybody is a content maker and a content reactor.

I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.

Every day, before you start, especially if you are going to wear sunscreen, you have to exfoliate.

We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

I've seen petite brides carry a ballgown, and I have also seen plus-size women carry a ballgown, though you wouldn't think so.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.

I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

I get upset about what is taken as great literature and what is cute and exotic.

On this land, Muslims, Christians and Jews can coexist together, as they have - as they had for the - for hundreds of years in the framework of a democratic state.