Emile Lahoud Quotes

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

Emile Lahoud

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• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Know
  • Language

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • World
  • War
  • Peace

• It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Just

• I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Car
  • Listen
  • Rather

• Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Popular

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Manners
  • Good Manners

• This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Hand

• …the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.

  

  Alvin Toffler
  • World
  • Religious

• Everyone should be talking to each other to find out why they have the views that they do instead of just getting on Facebook and yelling at each other. Nobody really, really talks. They don't listen.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Why

• I think for everything that people say about me as a person today - whether it's about being disciplined and grounded or whatever - I think a lot of it is a credit to my father, who has been a massive influence in my life both professionally and personally.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Life
  • Father

• My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

  

  Chris Isaak

• The tenor voice should be like sunshine.

  

  Marcello Giordani
  • Sunshine

• Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Money
  • Happy

• We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Time
  • Practice

• I want to set people up for success, like a good diet plan. If I pick just one, it may not be the right one for you. That's why there are 500 shifts, so you can literally flip it open and have an easy starting point.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Success
  • Diet
  • Flip

• And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Children

• I was full of energy, and I had a lot of bottled up rage that would come out in my stage performances. It was therapy sessions for someone who couldn't afford to go to therapy, a way to release my frustration, my inhibition. When I was little, growing up in an abusive household, I felt like I didn't have a voice. Suddenly I was on stage and people were watching me and listening to me, so even if I was singing about something that didn't have to do with abuse, when I was on stage I could express all of the anger, the rage.

  

  Alice Bag
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

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

  

  Emile Lahoud
  • Frustration