Arabia Quotes:

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

- Abba Eban

topic: Israel, United States, Arabia, Acknowledgement, Proclaiming

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

topic: Islamic, Arabia, Would Be, Saudi Arabia, Places Of Worship

I'm telling you, you can't compare Saudi Arabia to other countries.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Arabia, Saudi Arabia

You know, Saudi Arabia has a lot of poverty also. Regardless about what you hear about the viceroy and people being rich, et cetera.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

topic: People, Arabia, Poverty

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Arabia, Towers, Kingdoms, Terrorist Attacks, Saudis

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Growth, Arabia, Population Growth

You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Kings, People, Arabia

Our relations with brothers in Gulf Cooperation council are good and developing, either bilateral relations or with the G.C.C itself, also we have good brotherly and solid ties with Saudi Arabia.

- Ali Abdullah Saleh

topic: Brother, Ties, Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Brotherly

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Europe, Arabia, Kenya, Members Of Parliament, Holland

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Running, Office, Arabia

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate,

- Basmah bint Saud

topic: Rights, Arabia, Citizens, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

- Billy Joel

topic: Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia, British

I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on ***** in a lot of ways.

- Brendan Fraser

topic: Mean, Independent, Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia, Mummy

America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.

- Charles Duhigg

topic: America, Arabia, Coal

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

- Christine Baranski

topic: Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia, Ultimate, Cinematic

The bulk of extra supplies that could be put into the market come from two places. One, they come from other Persian Gulf suppliers, of which Saudi Arabia is at the top of the list.

- Daniel Yergin

topic: Two, Lists, Arabia, Persian Gulf, Suppliers

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

- Fareed Zakaria

topic: Heart, Oil, Arabia

The Crown Prince has said he needs to broaden political participation in the governing of Saudi Arabia.

- Frank Carlucci

topic: Political, Arabia, Needs, Political Participation

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ...

- Freya Stark

topic: People, Arabia, Levels, Pedantic

I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.

- Horace

topic: Arabia, Ease, Riches

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

- James Buchan

topic: Arabia, Virtue, States

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.

- James Lee Burke

topic: Writing, Arabia, Littles

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg

topic: Arabia, Watches, Looks, Watch Movie, Lawrence Of Arabia

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

- Jonathan Aitken

source: Jonathan Aitken (1971). “Land of fortune: a study of the new Australia”

topic: Appreciation, Glasses, Arabia, Belching

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself.

- Michael Scheuer

topic: Violence, Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

The smell of gunpowder is sweeter to me than all the perfumes of Arabia.

- Pope Julius II

topic: Smell, Gunpowder, Arabia

India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Arabia, India, Resources, Human Resources

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Arabia, India, Century

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

- Rahul Gandhi

topic: Oil, People, Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

- Recep Tayyip Erdogan

topic: Views, Arabia, Followers, Forums

Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.

- Salman Khurshid

topic: Saudi Arabia, India, Arabia, Saudis

There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.

- T. Boone Pickens

topic: Oil, Long, Arabia

In fact, an Islamic revival - already abetted from the outside not only by Iran but also by Saudi Arabia - is likely to become the mobilizing impulse for the increasingly pervasive new nationalisms, determined to oppose any reintegration under Russian - and hence infidel - control.

- Zbigniew Brzezinski

topic: Islamic, Iran, Arabia, Reintegration

NATO has been supporting Haj pilgrimage for those Afghans who wish to go to Saudi Arabia. The Alliance has played a role in helping transport concerning their security as they leave and come back to Afghanistan.

- James Appathurai

topic: Wish, Arabia, Roles, Nato

Why is it that the U.S. has to take refugees? Why doesn't Saudi Arabia take more.

- Michael T. Flynn

topic: Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Refugee

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

- Peter O'Toole

topic: Honor, Arabia, Thieves, Honor Among Thieves

As you get closer to equality, you get more pornography. True patriarchal societies like Saudi Arabia do not allow ***** because women are not allowed to turn their bodies into a commodity; women are chattel.

- Stephen Marche

topic: Arabia, Body, Commodity, Patriarchal Society

People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

- Adel al-Jubeir

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Play, People, Arabia, Supporting Roles

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

- Adel al-Jubeir

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: People, Arabia, Legal System

The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.

- Philip Khuri Hitti

topic: Real, Interesting, Arabia

In reading Ameen Rihani... I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice... and my envy of Mr. Rihani because he was permitted to enter many remote parts of Arabia which were barred to others.

- William Seabrook

topic: Reading, Envy, Arabia

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

- T. E. Lawrence

source: "Fictional character: T. E. Lawrence". "Lawrence of Arabia", www.imdb.com. 1962.

topic: Ocean, Arabia, Desert

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

- T. E. Lawrence

topic: Arabia, Lions, Clubs

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Mutual Interest, Arabia, Looks, Dictating

I think we can make a contribution to their [Saudi Arabia] thinking as they decide how they should deal with the economic and social challenges that they are facing.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Thinking, Challenges, Arabia

Saudi Arabia will have to decide its own path, and I don't know if it will decide a path like any other nation in the region or if it will design something that is unique to Saudi Arabia.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.theguardian.com

topic: Unique, Design, Arabia

I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's part of why I connect with Canadians. I think they understand grinding misery underneath.

- Craig Ferguson

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, Arabia, Misery

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

- Ameen Rihani

source: Ameen Fares Rihani (1930). “Around the Coasts of Arabia”

topic: Understanding, Arabia, Majesty

At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

source: "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VII, Chapter III, Section 8), circa 15 BC.

topic: Lakes, Yield, Arabia, Asphalt

Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.

- John Cleese

source: "'Satire Makes People Think'". Interview with Christoph Scheuermann and Barbara Supp, www.spiegel.de. March 30, 2015.

topic: West, Bikinis, Arabia, Value Systems, Saudi Arabia

We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.

- Marine Le Pen

source: "I Don't Want this European Soviet Union". Interview With Mathieu von Rohr, www.spiegel.de. June 3, 2014.

topic: Russia, Qatar, Arabia, Saudi Arabia

I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

- Dave Eggers

source: "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' - interview". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

topic: Kings, Cities, Arabia, King Abdullah

But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.

- Dave Eggers

topic: People, Arabia, Way, Categorization

In the last 48 hours King Abdullah from Saudi Arabia passed away. I have a moral dilemma. The king passed away three or four days ago. Is it too soon to hit on Queen Latifah?

- David Letterman

topic: Kings, Queens, Arabia, King Abdullah, Saudi Arabia

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

- Richard Dawkins

source: "Richard Dawkins Keeps Making New Enemies". Interview with Isaac Chotiner, newrepublic.com. October 29, 2013.

topic: People, Arabia, May

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states - Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America's Saudi Arabia.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Iraq, America, Arabia

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

- Jon Stewart

topic: Arabia, Female, Guilty

The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama's remarks during his meeting with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef in the Oval Office, Wshington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 13, 2015.

topic: Friendship, United States, Arabia, Saudi Arabia, Saudis

High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.

- Michael Hudson

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Oil, Arabia, Fracking, High Prices

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: time.com

topic: Thinking, Land, Arabia

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

- Julian Assange

source: "Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

topic: Feminism, Arabia, Sweden

Under Hillary Clinton, the world's largest ever arms deal was made with Saudi Arabia, [worth] more than $80 billion.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Arabia, World, Arms, Saudi Arabia

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time.

- Washington Irving

source: Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.3203, Delphi Classics

topic: Arabia, Desert, London

The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Japan, Korea, Arabia

Saudi Arabia cannot go pedal-to-the-metal on the way toward Sharia, although some might say they’re there, because they have a relationship with the United States that must continue. And they can’t make that relationship difficult for the US, so they moderate, and therefore they proceed...

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: United States, Arabia, Might, Pedals

Saudi Arabia might proceed toward Sharia slower than Al-Qaeda wants. Al-Qaeda wants pedal-to-the-metal, nothing else in focus, we’re heading to Sharia, and the Saudis might not be going there fast enough, so Al-Qaeda hits them.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

topic: Focus, Arabia, Want, Pedals, Sharia

Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

- Edward Said

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Land, Arabia, Sacred, Prophet Mohammed

Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single terrorist act. Those are the seven [Donald Trump] banned. But, you leave the ones that really are responsible, like Saudi Arabia, which is the center for propaganda and funding and so on for radical Islamic Jihadism, well you can't touch them because of business interests, also they have oil and so on and so forth.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Islamic, Oil, Arabia, Muslim World, Saudis

If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.

- Noel Coward

topic: Florence, Arabia, Peter

Yay Condi Rice. I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her first words upon getting off the plane to be 'I'll drive.'

- James Lileks

topic: Arabia, Yay, Want, Saudis

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

- Omar Sharif

source: "Omar Sharif: knave of hearts". Interview with Tim Dowling, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2004.

topic: Children, Wife, Arabia, Lawrence Of Arabia