Top 48 Jean Sasson Quotes
#1. Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?
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#2. Sadly, all of my wounds had been inflicted by men
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#3. Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.
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#4. I came to dread what I might discover next in the cruel world of men
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#5. A wise man was once asked what was the most difficult truth in life to uncover. His reply was: 'to know thyself'.
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#6. Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
-Khalid Gibran
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#7. Not forever can one enjoy stillness and peace. But misfortune and obstruction are not final. When the grass has been burnt by the fire of the steppe, it will grow anew in summer.
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#8. We must all work together to bring change to this earth.
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#9. How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak.
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#10. I thought to myself, beware of those who look like a rose, for even roses have spikes.
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#11. Millions of people have become refugees and beggars when violent extremists have overthrown governments. Should this happen in Saudi Arabia, the first action taken would be to behead or burn to death every Saudi royal.
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#12. I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.
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#13. The world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves
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#14. If you stand near a blacksmith, you will get covered in soot, but if you stand near a perfume seller, you will carry an aroma of scent with you.
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#15. Saudi Arabia, and began having children, Osama bin Laden completed his high school education at the Al-Thager
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#16. I know from my short time in the kingdom that all Saudis worry over Saudi opinion. All Saudis I have met act more relaxed around Westerners.
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#17. Then there are unreasonable men who complain that simply knowing a sensual female is in the building is too distracting for them to work productively.
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#18. Storytelling is power. A powerful book or movie can inform and inflame.
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#19. When the normal is forbidden, people fall into the abnormal.
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#20. when change is needed and strongly desired by citizens, change will come, one way or another.
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#21. The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived; he who marries a woman for good sense can truly say he is married. - Sultana
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#22. wed. Kareem would find it difficult to outwit
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#23. The greatest of all riches is education
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#24. For the first time since giving birth so many years before, I grew weary of motherhood, and wondered how many more generations of women could be enticed to burden themselves with the solitary and thankless procreation, nourishing, and guidance of the human race.
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#25. Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.
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#26. When people are uneducated, or simply lack curiosity to seek knowledge, change appears as a frightening unknown. Such fear leads to aggression, even violence.
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#27. I would be the master of my life, no matter what actions I would have to take or pain I would have to endure
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#28. Surely the weakness of our monarchy in Saudi Arabia is bound up in our addiction to extravagance. I fear it will be our undoing.
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#29. Every straight line can be forced into a curve!
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#30. I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana
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#31. understood that from this moment, the stepping-stones
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#32. Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you.
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#33. If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.
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#34. Happiness is realized only in the face of unhappiness
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#35. It was a known topic: The day of the virgin was leaving our land! Ali puckered
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#36. Only when we evolved as spirited stallions, with a strong will of our own, would we progress and leave the era of those primitives behind us.
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#37. We have witnessed all around the Middle East the tragedies that occur when citizens of repressive governments become so frustrated that they turn to those who preach violence.
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#38. When you harm a woman, you harm the whole world.
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#39. If the Prophet could speak in this new age of modern amenities, I knew he would end such silly tradition.
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#40. Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
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#42. (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)
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#43. From my personal experiences, it is evident that so many wealthy females within the kingdom are devoted to little else but frivolity, with their thoughts focused mainly on their looks and their luxurious possessions.
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#45. A fly will never be able to enter a mouth which knows when to stay shut,
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#46. as women overcome one obstacle, another appears
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#47. I had no use for a husband under duress
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#48. Only the men and the wind are completely free
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