Abdel Nasser Quotes

#1. If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular.

Maajid Nawaz

#2. We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#3. I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#4. Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.

Bruce Sterling

#5. I don't act; I react.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#7. It was all very well occupying the moral high ground on electoral reform, but what really mattered, she thought, was how you treated your mother.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all ... This is the dream of every Arab.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#9. There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#10. We will not accept any ... coexistence with Israel ... Today the issue is not the establishment of peace between the Arab states and Israel ... The war with Israel is in effect since 1948.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#11. I gave my wife a twenty-five-dollar gift certificate. She used it as a down payment on a mink coat.

Milton Berle

#12. The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

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

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#14. I believe strongly in the Constitutional principle of separating church and state. Our founders were right in fearing that religious freedom would be threatened in the long run by a departure from governmental neutrality in spiritual matters.

Sargent Shriver

#15. We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#16. I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

Amy Hempel

#17. Fate does not play jokes.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#18. Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.

The Wachowski Brothers

#19. He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#20. The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#21. Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#22. Parenthood is the most difficult, demanding job in the entire world,

Meg Cabot

#23. What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#24. Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#25. Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#26. Friendship is more important than truth.

Wanda Landowska

#27. We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#28. Events are not a matter of chance.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#29. And just because he's dead doesn't mean I have to stop living too.

Cecelia Ahern

#30. No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#31. If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#32. We shall not enter Palestine with its soil covered in sand, we shall enter it with its soil saturated in blood

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#33. Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood ... In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#34. People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#35. If you haven't got an idea, write a story anyway.

William Campbell Gault

#36. I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

Pamela Hansford Johnson