Queen Rania of Jordan Quotes
As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
-
Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
-
Power is the by-product of understanding.
-
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
-
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
-
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
-
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
-
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
-
A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
-
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
-
I know I look super young.
-
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
-
I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
-
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
-
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
-
In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
-
I was physically abused and I retaliated.
-
There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
-
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
-
'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
-
Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.
-
Sometimes I'm writing for magazines on assignment, but the university has to be patient with me. I mean, during the ten-week periods that I have a class, I'm there every Thursday night or whatever it is, but sometimes that's all I'm there, because I'm somewhere else the rest of the time.
-
Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
-
As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
