Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes

We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Most
  • Disaster
  • Significant

• We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Way
  • Taken
  • Easy

• I'm a rather decisive type.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Type
  • Rather
  • Decisive

• I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Scary

• The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Children
  • Why

• So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

  

  Edmund Burke

• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Important

• Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Time

• I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Criticism

• I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

  

  Max Levchin
  • People
  • Trying

• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Creativity

• Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • American

• I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• I feel so free and open to ideas, and I get inspired by everything.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Free
  • Inspired

• I take advantage of every thing I can - age, hair, disability - because my cause is just.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Age
  • Hair

• When Jackie Kennedy wanted to wear her favourite European designers, she was told no. She had to start working with brands like Adolfo, who had to create Chanel knock-offs because that's what she wanted to wear.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • She

• The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • People
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Forever

• We are in an economic war. It is a war between those who create wealth and those who believe they have some sort of divine mandate to appropriate wealth. They don’t have such an authoritative command. I don’t think they ever did. We have tried their command-andcontrol methods for nearly a century because they said they knew better. It is now obvious that they didn’t.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Believe
  • Wealth
  • Methods