Arabi Quotes

1. "Unul dintre dezastele nea?teptate ale epocii moderne este acela ca accesul incomparabil la informa?ie a venit cu pre?ul incapacita?ii noastre de a ne concentra cu adevarat asupra vreunui lucru. Gândirea profunda, introspectiva, care a generat multe dintre cele mai importante realizari ale omenirii este ?inta unui atac fara precedent. Întotdeauna avem prin preajma un aparat care ne garanteaza un refugiu fascinant ?i lasciv din fa?a realita?ii. Sentimentele ?i gândurile pe care am omis sa le traim în timp ce ne uitam la ecranele noastre î?i gasesc debu?eul în tresariri involuntare ?i în capacitatea noastra tot mai scazuta de a adormi când trebuie."
Author: Alain De Botton

2. "Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid."
Author: Al Waleed Bin Talal

3. "I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries."
Author: Al Waleed Bin Talal

4. "Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much."
Author: Al Waleed Bin Talal

5. "If a book did nothing else for you, other than to save you from the company of other people; if all it did was to deliver you from their gossip, and their dull affairs, and their appalling manners, and their rotten Arabic, and their stupid ideas, and their woefully misguided opinions, and above all, from the need to be polite to them; if a book did nothing more than that, it would still be the best friend you ever had."
Author: Andrew Killeen

6. "Amicizia..." Corso si guardò attorno, aspettando che qualcuno gli spiegasse la parola. "I bar e i cimiteri sono pieni di amici inseparabili."
Author: Arturo Pérez Reverte

7. "1.Tanri: Ne biçim dünya bu? Her yanda sefalet, bayagilik, pislik! Dogayi da katletmisler.Güzelim agaçlari tellerle idam etmisler.Daglarin ötesinde duman bulutlarindan göz gözü görmüyor. Gök gürültüsünün yerini top sesleri almis. Bütün bunlarin arasinda paçasini kurtarabilen tek kisiye rastlamadik."
Author: Bertolt Brecht

8. "Concerted voices of heartfelt petitions in Arabic all pleading for divine intervention are abruptly silenced as the drone ensures fatalities by injecting a final stab in each of their skulls."
Author: C.J. Anderson

9. "We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia."
Author: Daniel Yergin

10. "...Alnina konsun bu öpüs!Ve, simdi senden ayrilirken,Itiraf edeyim ki-Günlerimi bir düsSayarken yanilmiyorsun;Ama, umut gitmisse uzaklaraBir gece ya da bir günBir görüntüde ya da bir seyde olmaksizinFark eder mi bu yüzden?Bütün gördügümüz ve göründügümüzYalnizca bir düs içinde bir düs."
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

11. "Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession."
Author: Fareed Zakaria

12. "I think the real target of al-Qaeda is Saudi Arabia by the way. They hate us and we're a vehicle to get at Saudi Arabia. I think Osama bin Laden really wants to topple that regime and have his people move in, but that's a whole other story."
Author: Frank Carlucci

13. "So, I think even in Saudi Arabia there is movement. And we have to remember that over the years they've stabilized the oil price and that is tremendously important for the economies of the world. I think we have no choice but to work with the government of Saudi Arabia."
Author: Frank Carlucci

14. "I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made."
Author: Jeffrey Katzenberg

15. "What is the best that lies within us? Of how much are we capable? None of us yet knows. An old Arabic legend tells of a rider finding a spindly sparrow lying on its back in the middle of the road. He dismounted and asked the sparrow why his feet were in the air. Replied the sparrow, "I heard the heavens were going to fall today." "And I suppose you think your puny bird legs can hold up the whole universe?" laughed the horseman. "Perhaps not," said the sparrow with conviction, "but one does whatever one can."
Author: Jeffrey R. Holland

16. "In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain."
Author: Jim Al Khalili

17. "Two of the most famous Baghdadi scholars, the philosopher Al-Kindi and the mathematician Al-Khawarizmi, were certainly the most influential in transmitting Hindu numerals to the Muslim world. Both wrote books on the subject during al-Ma'mun's reign, and it was their work that was translated into Latin and transmitted to the West, thus introducing Europeans to the decimal system, which was known in the Middle Ages only as Arabic numerals. But it would be many centuries before it was widely accepted in Europe. One reason for this was sociological: decimal numbers were considered for a long time as symbols of the evil Muslim foe."
Author: Jim Al Khalili

18. "Benle mutlulugum arasina saplanan mesafe dünya degildi, bombalar ve yanan binalar degildi, bendim, düsünmemdi, bir seyleri asla koyuveremiyor olmanin kanseriydi. Cehalet tam mutluluk mudur, bilmiyorum ama düsünmek çok aci verici ve söyleyin bana, düsünmek bana ne verdi, beni hangi üstün mertebeye getirdi? Düsünüyor, düsünüyor ve düsünüyorum, kendimi milyon kere mutlulugun disinda düsündüm ama bir kere bile içinde düsünmedim. Çikarabildigim son sözcük "ben"di ki feci bir seydi..."
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

19. "I discovered it, ventured into it, and before long, sir, you too will have passed through my Arabian tunnel!"
Author: Jules Verne

20. "Yes, I'd still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I'd still have the Arabian Sea and Sindhri mangoes, and crabbing with Captain Saleem, who had the most popular boat of all because his business card promoted ‘Garunteed no cockroach', and, yes, there's still be those bottles of creamy, flavored milk from Rahat Milk Corner and drives to the airport for coffee and warm sand at the beach and Thai soup at Yuan Tung; yes, Burns Road nihari; yes, student biryani; oh, yes, yes, yes, and all that, and all that again. So why complain? Why contemplate words like ‘longing'?"
Author: Kamila Shamsie

21. "His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to help me with my sparse Arabic, trying to get my pronunciation of this or that word right. "Shukran." "Afwan." "Qumbula." Thank you. You're welcome. Bomb."
Author: Kevin Powers

22. "By the time the plan's wheels touched down on a desolate stretch of desert runway, the sun had cleared a ridge of mountains and revealed a land the color of dust. The single building that served as a terminal was squat and seemingly of the same dust.The Middle East? Eliza wondered. Tattooine? A sign, handpainted, was illegible in exotic, curling letters. Arabic, at a guess. That probably eliminated Tattooine."
Author: Laini Taylor

23. "The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace--squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic."
Author: Laura Kelly

24. "You are the Arabian stallion that neighs on the crossroad of my heart ache covering me with the dust of my own ardor."
Author: Malak El Halabi

25. "Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself."
Author: Michael Scheuer

26. "From the book he carefully tears out several maps, and in this light Afghanistan's mountains and hills and restlessly branching corridors of rock appear as though the pages are crumpled up, and there is a momentary wish in him to smooth them down. Laser-guided bombs are falling onto the pages in his hands, missiles summoned from the Arabian Sea, from American warships that are as long as the Empire State Building is tall."
Author: Nadeem Aslam

27. "Bámultam a házat, és kevesebbre emlékeztem a tinédzseréveimbol, mint vártam: se a jó napokra, se a rosszakra. Egy darabig itt éltem, ebben a házban. Mintha nem is lett volna köze ahhoz, aki mára lettem."
Author: Neil Gaiman

28. "Better eat and praise God, than eat and stay silent : Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

29. "Life is to have a belief and fight for it: Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

30. "Pick the lesser of the two evils: Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

31. "Either live with dignity or die generous: Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

32. "Experimenting is the greatest science: Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

33. "The water of his face is cleaned ( His decency is preserved): ARABIC PROVERB"
Author: Radostin Chernev

34. "Do good and throw it in the sea (Do not expect reward for good deeds) : Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

35. "Don't eat your bread on someone else's table: Arabic proverb"
Author: Radostin Chernev

36. "Leave evil, it will leave you: ARABIC PROVERB"
Author: Radostin Chernev

37. "The sign was spray-painted in Arabic and English, probably from some attempt by the farmer to sell his wares in the market. The English read: Dates-best price. Cold Bebsi. "Bebsi?" I asked."Pepsi," Walt said. "I read about it on the Internet. There's no 'p' in Arabic. Everyone here calls the soda Bebsi.""So you have to have Bebsi with your bizza?""Brobably."
Author: Rick Riordan

38. "Some have said it is the easiest group at the World Cup, but we realize it won't be like that. Germany are a tremendous side, but to be honest I don't know much about Cameroon and Saudi Arabia."
Author: Robbie Keane

39. "The New Arabian Nights"
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

40. "Later, when his desires had been satisfied, he slept in an odorous whorehouse, snoring lustily next to an insomniac tart, and dreamed. He could dream in seven languages: Italian, Spanic, Arabic, Persian, Russian, English and Portughese. He had picked up languages the way most sailors picked up diseases; languages were his gonorrhea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,his plague. As soon as he fell asleep half the world started babbling in his brain, telling wondrous travelers' tales. In this half-discovered world every day brought news of fresh enchantments. The visionary, revelatory dream-poetry of the quotidian had not yet been crushed by blinkered, prosy fact. Himself a teller of tales, he had been driven out of his door by stories of wonder, and by one in particular, a story which could make his fortune or else cost him his life."
Author: Salman Rushdie

41. "Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle."
Author: Samuel P. Huntington

42. "Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as perhaps you think it is. T. E. LAWRENCE, ADVICE TO BRITISH OFFICERS, IN TWENTY-SEVEN ARTICLES, AUGUST 1917"
Author: Scott Anderson

43. "I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree.I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English. I'm cunninglingual."
Author: Sienna McQuillen

44. "I've got Arabic music in my blood."
Author: Stewart Copeland

45. "Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society."
Author: Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

46. "Stronger than rage, astonishment, contempt, the pleasurable sense that at last she had slapped Frederick's face, the less pleasurable surmise that his slap back would be longer-lasting; stronger even than the desire to see Minna was her feeling that of all things, all people, she most at this moment wished to see Ingelbrecht, and the sturdy assurance that she would find in him everything that she expected. If she had gone up the stairs in the rue de la Carabine on her knees, she could not have ascended with a more zealotical faith that there would be healing at the top; and when he opened the door to her, enquiring politely if her errands had gone well she replied with enthusiasm, "Perfectly. My husband--it was he I went to see--has just threatened to cut me off with a penny.""A lock-out," said Ingelbrecht. "Very natural. It is a symptom of capitalistic anxiety. I suppose he has always been afraid of you."She nodded, and her lips curved in a grin of satisfaction."
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner

47. "An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years."
Author: The Economist

48. "Southern gentleman," he said aside to him in Arabic. "Do you wish for me to continue this for you?"Caine's temper shifted to a low simmer in his chest. "Your way takes too long.""Ma'aleyk, and your way hurts my ears," he argued."
Author: V.S. Carnes

49. "Fugit irreparabile tempus."
Author: Virgil

50. "...tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d'elles ne me donnerait raison. En réalité maintenant que j'avais perdu la face , je me cherchais un masque. Pareil à un défiguré, je me cachais derrière mes pansements qui me servaient aussi de moucharabiehs. Je regardais en cachette la vérité des autres, en abusais pour distancer la mienne"
Author: Yasmina Khadra

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