Top 605 Quotes & Sayings by Lebanese Authors - Page 8

Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.

If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.

Israel lost their power to intimidate during the second war with Lebanon.

When on the show it is mostly reconstructions that I work on, but locally and on a day-to-day basis it is rhinoplasties. I also get a lot of people coming to me about upper eyelid lifts, too.

Kim Kardashian buttocks are very popular. However, that's dangerous as it can be fatal if done badly.

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

I will not accept that a Lebanese political party participates in maneuvers that serve the interests of Iran.

I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

Without naming names, I definitely think that celebrities nowadays are really having better surgery. It's looking a lot more natural than ever which is really great.

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

Fashion is for us to have fun.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

For me, soccer was a dance.

Pumping parties are when you go to someone's residence but obviously not in a medical office and have whatever injected into your face and your body.

The hardest procedures are the complex nasal reconstructions. With these you have to be so careful, because the skin of the nose can be very destroyed and turns black and can fall off. It's extremely difficult and scary.

Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

I went from the most underground band in the world to signing with Madonna's producer and a record label that is extremely mainstream - it was interesting.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

Our problem with Israel is that its leaders always talk about war and security but never about peace.

We must not pay for the actions of Hezbollah.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

If you want to know whether soccer is big in America, pick a weekend, go to any park in the land, and pay attention. We're there. We've always been.

The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.

Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse.

I like to do things that are step by step. It takes experience to get to the next level. And you have to put your heart into it.

In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

I wanted to pursue my own thing - I had desires, ideas I wanted to accomplish, and I needed to be on my own for that.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

My sister Tala has twins, and they're wonderful.

Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence.

Though I'm a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items.

Whatever it is that you are doing as an actor, if it frightens you, if you're scared of it, you need to do it.

There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity.

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

I get a call from my sister. They go, 'We met the funniest, funniest doctor in Newport Beach.' And they introduced me to Dr. Terry Dubrow.

I cannot speak for Jesus, but I can quote his teachings, and he said, 'Love your neighbor as yourself'... How would he react to me playing Jesus? He wouldn't judge it. He wouldn't judge his own enemy... Playing this part highlights his teaching in a very nice way.