Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Opportunity
  • Present
  • Problems

• Obama, in pursuit of power, has been as greedy and irresponsible as any Wall Street tycoon in pursuit of money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Wall

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Why
  • Character
  • Girl

• You can grow apart from people very quickly.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • You
  • Grow

• All government, of course, is against liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Against

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• In 2012, General Dempsey, General Petraeus directed the CIA, Secretary Panetta and Secretary Clinton recommended to the president to robustly arm and train the Syrian moderates. He says no. In 2013, conduct a military strike, same national security team, against the Assad regime because he violated the chemical red line. He says no.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Team
  • Military
  • Red

• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Government
  • First
  • Surrender

• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Why
  • War

• When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Done
  • Failure

• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Events

• I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Peace
  • Inspired
  • Ideals

• What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Sure
  • Comes

• There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Running
  • Savage
  • Irrational

• Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Culture
  • Kind
  • Purpose

• I have come to the conclusion that some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Lessons
  • Conclusion
  • Blessings