Ahdaf Soueif Quotes

Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.

Ahdaf Soueif

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• Egypt

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• If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Week

• But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Movie

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
  • Pressure

• Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
  • Great
  • Giving

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• El mal, débil, me agita; fuerte, me calma.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Feeling
  • Religion
  • Language

• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • She

• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, “He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• When happy, be kind. When angry, be kind. When hopeful, be kind. When discouraged, be kind. When ever, be kind.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Happy
  • Angry
  • Hopeful

• You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Accomplishment
  • Intention
  • Chairs

• For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth

• Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....

  

  Robert Frost
  • Art
  • Business
  • Strong

• You just have to stay positive.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • Positive

• That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of this universe.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Up
  • Universe

• I kind of like "love what you do" better. Wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it. Eventually success will find you.

  

  Ben Chestnut
  • Love
  • Success
  • Better

• On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the filth. And yet they are capable of bringing entire civilizations to their knees. If you are dirty, insignificant, and unloved then rats are the ultimate role model.

  

  Banksy
  • Live
  • Painting
  • Model

• Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

  

  Will Durant
  • Freedom
  • Civilization
  • Activity

• Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.

  

  Eugenio Montale
  • Identity
  • Lose
  • Civilization

• By nature, I’m rather passive so it’s important for me to appear confident on stage. I was very nervous.

  

  Park Ji-young After School
  • Nature
  • Stage
  • Confident

• Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.

  

  Ahdaf Soueif
  • Civilization
  • Dreaming
  • Egypt