Bassem Youssef Quotes

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

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• We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • World
  • Football
  • Place

• We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Proud
  • Band

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• I never accepted the premise that meetings themselves were bad.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Bad
  • Never
  • Meetings

• Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Start

• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Love
  • Person
  • Battle

• Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Smart

• I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Chocolate
  • Credit
  • Ice

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.

  

  Iman
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Career

• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Political
  • Best
  • Couple

• It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Done

• I'm federal agent Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Life
  • Agent
  • Jack Bauer

• I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Challenge
  • Grain

• I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Church
  • Bible
  • I Believe

• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Legacy

• There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Fun
  • Respect
  • Glory