Ahmed Zewail Quotes

For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

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• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Men
  • High
  • Girl

• To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Direction

• We were elected in a wave because the people in America, if they had a single issue that troubled them the most, it was that health care vote.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • People
  • America
  • Single

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Work
  • Job
  • Enough

• Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Life
  • Best
  • Child

• What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Law
  • Control
  • Victory

• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Best
  • Protect
  • Used

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Cities

• The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • People
  • Political
  • Decision

• I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Action
  • Lost

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Literature

• I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Idea
  • First
  • No Idea

• Hey guys, there isn't gonna be a Plan B. You called me in to bring the thunder and that's what I'm gonna do.

  

  Jack Black

• Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Remember

• If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

  

  Bikram Choudhury
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could want, in terms of bookshops, theatre, cinema, conversation. But it's near enough to London to get here in an hour, and it's near enough to huge open spaces without which I would go insane.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Small
  • City
  • Theatre

• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Man
  • Question

• I think obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many years. I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines that could kill that child and that's wrong.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Work
  • Suffering

• For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.

  

  Ahmed Zewail