Hanan Ashrawi Quotes

We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power.

Hanan Ashrawi

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Kind
  • Model
  • Look

• I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?

  

  Becky Lynch
  • World
  • Real
  • Job

• Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Women
  • Country
  • Trying

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Why
  • Perception
  • Lawyer

• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Walls

• How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Why
  • She
  • Decision

• I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.

  

  Dana Davis
  • People
  • Family
  • Think

• I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Father

• All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • March

• We should be wondering tonight, 'Is there a world?' But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • World

• It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • History
  • Flower

• We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People

• Art thou angry with him whose arm-pits stink? art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul? What good will this anger do thee?

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Good
  • Art
  • Angry

• She maybe is Puerto Rican or the same thing as Cuban. I mean, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.

  

  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • She
  • Together
  • Black

• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Long
  • Power
  • Violence

• I used to think, if I could realise I'd dieThen I would be a lot nicerUsed to believe in a lot moreNow I just see straight aheadThat's not to say I don't have good timesBut as for my days, I spend them waiting...

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Waiting

• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  

  Douglas Haig
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Moral

• In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Democracy

• Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder, and bullets in his pocket, and there is no power on earth or under the earth which can deny that he has earned the right of citizenship in the United States.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Power
  • Black
  • Earth

• We are not interested in a symbolic state, and statehood generally is not a concession from an occupying power.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Power
  • Concession
  • Symbolic state