Adel al-Jubeir Quotes

Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.

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• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Understand

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Energy
  • Ocean
  • Evolution

• If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • You
  • Hate

• There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Together
  • Myself

• I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Work
  • Like
  • Hoard

• Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • People
  • War
  • Die

• The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Act
  • Only
  • Sexual

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Women
  • Political

• When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• Michael Jordan was that guy - he was Michael Jordan. So whatever he did, we followed.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Guy
  • Whatever
  • Jordan

• ...no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

  

  Karl Popper
  • May

• I love America, and parts of New Jersey remind me of Newfoundland - rolling hills and gardens - it's great! I guess that's why they call it the Garden State.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great
  • Why
  • America

• I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Family

• I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.

  

  Jon Jones
  • Up
  • Dad
  • Violence

• I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Age

• We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Tears
  • Them
  • Reduced

• Just like we respect your legal system, you europeans should respect our legal system. You cannot impose your values on us, otherwise the world will become the law of the jungle. Every society decides what its laws are, and it's the people who make decisions with regards to these laws.

  

  Adel al-Jubeir
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Laws