Amzat Abdel Quotes

Being a highly sensetive person is followed by a lot of infinity pain and grief. ~ Abdel Halim

They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

for those support you
they deserve your gratitude
and the best attitude
they are messegages sent to say
you are on the right way. ~ Mohammed Abdel-Mohsen

Your perception is riveting, Amal," he says in a bored and sarcastic tone, dropping the note down on my desk. "It's comforting to know that there are people in my class who have the maturity and intelligence to make derogatory comments about other people's external appearances."
Now what am I supposed to say to that?
"What do you have to say for yourself?"
Friggin' mind reader. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

A pang of love for my country suddenly strikes through me. That lazy way the trees and bushes dot the land. The effortless beauty of the mountains and the secrets hidden within them. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

I hated the culture [working in the bank], I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. ~ Sharif Abdel Kouddous

We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

The armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are poised on the borders of Israel ... to face the challenge, while standing behind us are the armies of Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait, Sudan and the whole Arab nation. This act will astound the world. Today they will know that the Arabs are arranged for battle, the critical hour has arrived. We have reached the stage of serious action and not of more declarations. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

See Tia, I wash my feet 5 times a day. So that means that at any given moment in the day, my feet are cleaner than your face. ~ Randa Abdel Fattah

I wear my politics like hand-me down clothes: some bits feel like they don't fit me properly, but I expect I'll grow into them, trusting that because they're from my parents they've come from a good source. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

In our lives we face so many wars in which each of them has so many battles. all we go through based on our believe we will live better when we win them. there are no hard battles or easy battles ... they are all the same. however in each war we go through, the first battle is the hardest. ~ Sameh Elsayed

Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up ~ Sameh Elsayed

We are all accountable for our actions; their affect and influence on our lives and the lives of others.
Understanding the true meaning of accountability makes us strong and enables us to learn ~ Sameh Elsayed

I ask for the limits to exceed them, i ask for the impossible to achieve it. ~ Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

It takes an artist ... . to be an artist ~ Sameh Elsayed

At [my old school], when teachers stood up to address us in assemblies, it was to urge us to study hard, stay focused, remain resilient, set goals, seek support. If there was a "leader," she was the exception, not the norm.
Listening to [the adults here], I wonder if things would be different if we spent thirteen years being told that we were born to lead, and that the only thing that would ever hold us back would be a limited imagination. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

Dear Son,
People with narrow visions who are afraid of the future are unnecessary weights in your life
Love Daddy ~ Sameh Elsayed

If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. ~ Maajid Nawaz

With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better. ~ Sameh Elsayed

Life isn't about what you're waiting for ..It's about what you're living for. ~ Abdel Halim

I would never stay in office against the will of the people. My ethics and patriotism do not allow me to do so. ~ Abdel Fattah El-Sisi

The Smile for some is an expression of joy, but for others it's a whole world of hope. ~ Abdel Halim Boudekhana

Out of this unstable mix of technocracy and national security you have a nostalgia developing for colonialism or religion - atavistic in my opinion, but some people want them back. Sadat is the great example of that: he threw out the Russians, as well as everything else that represented Abdel Nasser, ascendant nationalism, and so forth - and said, "Let the Americans come." Then you have a new period of what in Arabic is called an infitah - in other words, an opening of the country to a new imperialism: technocratic management, not production but services - tourism, hotels, banking, etc. That's where we are right now. ~ Edward W. Said

I do not get offended if you insult me, laugh at me or even make fun of me. I am offended when you do so to my dreams. ~ Sameh Elsayed

There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army. ~ Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi

Think before you speak ... ... think before you don't. ~ Sameh Elsayed

In some stages in life, some individuals decide only to chose every hard option to achieve. His/her life turns onto confluence of challenges influenced only by destiny ... in which only few decide to accept because it is a matter of existence to them. ~ Sameh Elsayed

He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force. ~ Gamal Abdel Nasser

Grief, especially when it's still raw, is like having a thirst that no amount of water quenches. It can't be consoled; it can't be alleviated. It's unrelenting and constant. I wish I could tell her that it will get easier with time. But if I told her that I'd also have to tell her that easier doesn't mean it ever goes away. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't sit though the nigh crying when such horrors happen all the time. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up. ~ Randa Abdel-Fattah

Once you beat yourself,you will beat the world. ~ Abdel Halim Boudekhana

Always there lurks the assumption that although the Western consumer belongs to a numerical minority, he is entitled either to own or to expend (or both) the majority of the world resources. Why? Because he, unlike the Oriental, is a true human being. No better instance exists today of what Anwar Abdel Malek calls "the hegemonism of possessing minorities" and anthropocentrism allied with Europocentrism: a white middle-class Westerner believes it his human prerogative not only to manage the nonwhite world but also to own it, just because by definition "it" is not quite as human as "we" are. There is no purer example than this of dehumanized thought. ~ Edward W. Said