Top 1200 Arab Spring Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who were historically part of the Arab community.

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

Think of the Father as a spring of life begetting the Son like a river and the Holy Ghost like a sea, for the spring and the river and sea are all one nature. Think of the Father as a root, and of the Son as a branch, and the Spirit as a fruit, for the substance in these three is one. The Father is a sun with the Son as rays and the Holy Ghost as heat.

Without strong Arab backing, it will be hard, if not impossible, for a Palestinian leader to reach peace with Israel.

I began my work as director of the Arab American Association of New York in the wake of the horrific attacks of 9/11.

Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.

[Arab peoples] are stuck back thousands of years and they think they're going to get out with a TV set.

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me.

I was always a wrestling fan, and being an Arab kid who grew up in Canada, there was no representation for people like me.

The Syrian rebels, weakened by infighting, have also been victims of the growing rift between the U.S. and its closest Arab allies.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

There can't be real peace without improving the integration of Arab society and making it part of the political game.

Israel wants to make it clear to the government of Egypt that it has no aggressive intentions whatsoever against any Arab state at all

Between 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.

My dad is Arab. I'm not Muslim, but half of family is, so I see a lot of injustice happening in the portrayal of Muslims that they don't have any heroes.

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency.

In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

We can remove Saddam because that could start a chain reaction in the Arab world that would be very healthy.

In the winter you may want the summer; in the summer, you may want the autumn; in the autumn, you may want the winter; but only in the spring you dream and want no other season but the spring!

Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.

Matt Damon's anti-fracking diatribe was funded by the royal family of the United Arab Emirates.

When was the last time an Arab MK who appeared on television wasn't there in the role of the accused who is attacked by a skeptical broadcaster?

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

It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea.

Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.

We believe that the Arab world has been there for centuries, and thousands of years, and it'll keep on continuing being there. All we have to do is work together.

All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Governments like China and the United Arab Emirates are investing heavily in AI and see it as a competitive advantage.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. ("The October Game")

[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together.

Ah, how wonderful is the advent of the Spring!—the great annual miracle.... which no force can stay, no violence restrain, like love, that wins its way and cannot be withstood by any human power, because itself is divine power. If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation would there be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!... We are like children who are astonished and delighted only by the second-hand of the clock, not by the hour-hand.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

The American spring is like the country itself: abundant, rich, flowing over you like a full tide. ... Azaleas were suddenly ablaze. White dogwoods stood like brides in the wood - these trees of all colors were new to me; one does not meet them in Europe, and dogwood cannot even be transplanted to other continents. White and pink magnolias, yellowish rhododendrons, all of them lived happily side by side with our ordinary lilacs and lilies of the valley - the Russian symbols of spring.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

I have been to Burj-Al-Arab. And I visit Dubai quite often, I really like the place.

Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois.

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

The four main orientations of Morocco's foreign policy: the Maghreb, the Arab world, Africa and other partners

In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.

It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring.

I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.

I'm trying to be a voice for the North African Arab community. We've got to continue to fight for our place in the industry.

The only good thing I can say about the deal with Iran is that it brought the Arab states and Israel closer together.