Quotes by Egyptian Authors

"This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Character, Advice, Film, Sound

9

"The fact that you had disruptions in the peace process was not only in Rwanda. We had the same problem in Cambodia, we had the same problem in Mozambique, we had the same problem in Salvador."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Peace, Fact

6

"We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others."

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Egyptian Theologian

Truth, Country, Justice

6

"Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people."

Anwar Sadat, Egyptian Statesman

Soul, People, Fear

5

"The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about."

Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian Businessman

God, Nothing, Worry

5

"Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation."

Amr Moussa, Egyptian Diplomat

Participation, Solution

5

"They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood."

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian Leader

Blood,

5

"Sharon is capable of making peace."

Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Statesman

Peace,

5

"Without literature my life would be miserable."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Life, Literature

5

"I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me."

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian Leader

Mistrust,

5

"When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

World,

4

"My life has been devoted to peacemaking."

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Egyptian Theologian

Life,

4

"I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Talk,

4

"The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Change, Courage, Consideration, Forget

4

"If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards."

Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian Statesman

Now, Osamabinladen, Will

4

"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

Wisdom, Folly, Fool, Ignorance

4

"Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution."

Anwar Sadat, Egyptian Statesman

Diplomacy, Solution, States, United

4

"We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Peace, Decision, Military, Reason

4

"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Time, Thought, People, Personality

4

"I will reveal the secrets behind these doors."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

Secrets, Will

4

"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

Wisdom, Mind, Treasure, Trouble

4

"We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Cultural, Forget, Style

4

"I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist

War, Work, Chance, Cooperation

4

"Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Men, Women

4

"Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

Life, Heart, Maxims, Prudence

4

"There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people."

Anwar Sadat, Egyptian Statesman

Happiness, People

3

"Events are not a matter of chance."

Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian Leader

Chance, Events

3

"God did not intend religion to be an exercise club."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Religion, God, Exercise

3

"There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Society, People, Eye, Heroes

3

"I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Gambling, Passion, Want, Years

3

"Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Winning,

3

"I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist

Hope, Will

3

"My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Reading, Forget, Right, Support

3

"Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy."

Akhenaton, Egyptian Statesman

Art, Soul, Body, Resolution

3

"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind."

Philo, Egyptian Philosopher

Happiness, People, Cities, Countries

3

"Rwanda was considered a second-class operation; because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Peace, Impression, Country, Project

3

"We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony."

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Egyptian Theologian

Peace, Religion, Harmony

3

"Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Religion, Civilization, Needs, Today

3

"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Genocide,

3

"In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

Troops,

3

"We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

Care, Foreigners, Majority

3

"At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Age,

3

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

Civilization, Culture

3

"Working gets in the way of living."

Omar Sharif, Egyptian Actor

Living,

3

"I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them."

Zahi Hawass, Egyptian Scientist

People, Media, Nothing, Running

3

"A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems."

Boutros Boutros Ghali, Egyptian Public Servant

People, African, Attention, Discrimination

3

"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Change, Pregnancy, Woman

3

"Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons."

Mohamed ElBaradei, Egyptian Scientist

Country, Countries, Destruction, Security, Trying

3

"In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace."

Feisal Abdul Rauf, Egyptian Theologian

Peace, People, Muslim, Battle

2

"I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature."

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Novelist

Money, Literature, Nothing, Writing