"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."

-- Tahar Ben Jelloun

#Country Quotes #Egypt Quotes #Ordeals Quotes

“A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders -- management skills.”
“If you can call a Chevrolet a Chev, why can't you call a Japanese a Jap?”
“The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.”

Source : "Remembering Our Purpose". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1993.
“I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.”
“For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.”
“Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can.”
“So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.”

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