"I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression."

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Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

Zalmay Khalilzad

#Expression Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Middle East Quotes

“The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.”
“My my Laura Goodman. I must say that is a charming name for a charming young lady." "Eric's old." I broke in. "Really really old." "Erâ€” really?" Laura asked. "Gosh you don't look even out of your thirties." "Tons of face-lifts. He's a surgical addict. I'm trying to get him help." I added defensively when they both gave me strange looks.”

Source : MaryJanice Davidson (2005). “Undead and Unappreciated: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.155, Penguin
“I'm a big woman. I need big hair.”
“Sexual fulfillment is the banana life dangles in front of us just to keep us running.”
“Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.”
“Christ was vitoe magister, not scholoe; and he is the best Christian whose heart beats with the purest pulse towards heaven; not he whose head spinneth out the finest cobwebs.”
“When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”
“The disciples were not losing time when they sat beside their Master, and held quiet converse with Him under the olives of Bethany or by the shores of Galilee. Those were their school-hours; those were their feeding times.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 376, 1895.

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