Manal Al Sharif Quotes

Extremism frequently turns its champions into angry people, driven by conflicting desires. At first, I pitied my less enlightened parents and siblings. Then I felt superior to them, poor sinners that they were. Then I lost patience with their unwillingness
to see the one true path and resorted to threats, intimidation, and yelling. At night, I was tormented by thoughts of what would happen to all us of when we reached our graves. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view. I began to question everything. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

The axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for people in authority to go outside those rules, and, if not break them, at least bend them quite a bit. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

When women break that taboo and they're not afraid to drive that car by herself - that's it. Now she has the guts to speak up for herself and take action. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

How odd it is that we judge a woman by her clothes and the place she eats lunch and the subjects she talks about with her colleagues
on her coffee break, yet we don't judge a man if he doesn't grow his beard or if he works with women or speaks to them. Why do Saudi women allow subjugation to a man and adhere to men's rules and conditions? Why did I? ~ Manal Al-Sharif

It is an amazing contradiction: a society that frowns on a woman going out without a man; that forces you to use separate entrances for universities, banks, restaurants, and mosques; that divides restaurants with partitions so that unrelated males and females cannot sit together; that same society expects you to get into a car with a man who is not your relative, with a man who is a complete stranger, by yourself and have him take you somewhere inside a locked car, alone. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

How beautiful it is to live in a world with no walls. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

A child cannot be free if his/her mother is not free. A husband cannot be free if his wife is not free. The society is nothing if women are nothing. ~ Manal Al-Sharif

People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking. ~ Omar Sharif

Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning precipice? It leads to liberty. You see that flood, that river, that well? Liberty houses within them. You see that stunted, parched, and sorry tree? From each branch liberty hangs. Your neck, your throat, your heart are all so many ways of escape from slavery [...] Do you enquire the road to freedom? You shall find it in every vein of your body. ~ Al Alvarez

My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order. ~ Al Sharpton

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. ~ Robert Foster Bennett

Barack Obama became president, and he abandoned Iraq. He left, and when he left Al Qaida was done for. ISIS was created because of the void that we left, and that void now exists as a caliphate the size of Indiana. ~ Jeb Bush

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence. ~ Al MacInnis

Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better. ~ Al Ries

I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I'd had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: "Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business ... Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas". ~ Garrison Keillor

To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. ~ Muammar Al-Gaddafi

Terrorism is a state of mind that on the one hand has to do with ignorance and, on the other hand, can be attributed to a feeling of desperation over the political situation, which at some point takes the form of revenge. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

You'd be surprised what my Asha'man would dare. ~ Robert Jordan

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. ~ Al Capone

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody ~ Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters ~ Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to seek or demand the impossible. They will imagine what does not or cannot happen, misunderstand occurrences and events, and interpret them on the basis of cherished illusions which in no way reflect God's sunan or the essence of Islamic law. ~ Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. ~ Al Pacino

In an odd way, we have really destroyed two of our strongest allies against the Islamists. Saddam Hussein, and we've probably fatally undermined Bashir al Assad in Syria. ~ Michael Scheuer

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

Praise belongs to God who appointed among those roads His month, the month of Ramadan, the month of fasting, the month of submission, the month of purity, the month of putting to test, the month of standing in prayer, in which the Quran was sent down as guidance to the people, and as clear signs of the Guidance and the Separator. ~ Imam Zayn Al 'Abidin Al-Sahifat Al-Sajjadiyya

No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match. ~ Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Dwell on joy of your dreams. Watch the galaxies, and you see yourself rushing with them. ~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida

I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws. ~ Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much. ~ Al Pacino

I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people. ~ Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

The Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (Light of Al-Hussein) was created to complement my husband's efforts to advance development in the country. ~ Queen Noor Of Jordan

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything. ~ Adam McKay

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people. ~ Bashar Al-Assad

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~ Al Franken

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die. ~ Al Franken

My heart leaped with excitement. Odin was sending me to fight the jotuns in Jotunheim! I jumped up and summoned my spear of light. It blazed with anticipation. "I won't let you down, sir! I'll take care of those giants and their wretched sorcery!"
"Ah. No." Odin handed me a Valkyrie Vision body cam. "I need you to take a new photo of the egg. So I can see if it is beginning to hatch."
My spear dimmed. "Oh."
He raised an eyebrow. "It's an important job. Likely fraught with danger."
"Oh, sure," I agreed. "Snapping a pic of an egg in a nest would be . . . obviously. I'll be on my way, then. ~ Rick Riordan

Beauties" by Anton Chekhov, "The Doll's House" by Katherine Mansfield, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J. D. Salinger, "Brownies" or "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" both by ZZ Packer, "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried" by Amy Hempel, "Fat" by Raymond Carver, "Indian Camp ~ Gabrielle Zevin

I also focus on Bush and his administration - who do a lot of lying - and how a right-wing media has allowed them to get away with a lot of stuff that, in a different media environment, they probably wouldn't be able to get away with. ~ Al Franken

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out. ~ Al Roker

I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything. ~ Al Madrigal

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. ~ Al Leiter

That Muhammad could predict certain events does not prove that he was a prophet: he may have been able to guess successfully, but this does not mean that he had real knowledge of the future. And certainly the fact that he was able to recount events from the past does not prove that he was a prophet, because he could have read about those events in the Bible and, if he was illiterate, he could still have had the Bible read to him. ~ Muhammad Al Warraq

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, ... It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation. ~ Al Gore

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth. ~ Al Gore

The Angels of (Mercy) do not enter a house in which there are pictures (of animals). ~ Muhammad Al-Bukhari