Cairo famous quotes

Our intention to regard the closing of the Straits as a casus belli was communicated...to the foreign ministers of those states which had supported international navigation in the Straits in 1957 and thereafter. There can be no doubt that these warnings reached Cairo. One thing was now clear. If Nasser imposed a blockade, the explosion would ensue not from 'miscalculation', but from an open-eyed and conscious readiness for war.
-- Abba Eban

#War #Doubt #Cairo

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
-- Arabella Weir

#Dad #America #Cairo

When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.
-- Bert Hellinger

#Heart #Cairo #Way

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
-- Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#Cairo #Lessons #Way

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Hands #Three #Cairo

Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
-- Dashiell Hammett

#Want #Cairo #Smooth

Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.
-- Italo Calvino

#Smell #Cairo #Body

I am convinced that our people are now on the way to establishing a Palestinian state. The agreement signed in Cairo is the first step in establishing the state, and therefore it should be implemented.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Agreement #People #Cairo