Alaa Al Aswany Quotes

#1. Our love of beauty is merely a trick produced by the way we look, and the broader the vision grows the clearer the wrinkles are seen

Alaa Al Aswany

#2. Nationalities are a facist way of thinking aimed at forcing people into a narrow and stupid sense of belonging. It makes some people feel superior to others and perpetuates hatred and war.

Alaa Al Aswany

#3. There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

Alaa Al Aswany

#5. And that spark will flash in her eyes confirming that her mind never stops working, even in the heat of passion.

Alaa Al Aswany

#6. If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Alaa Al Aswany

#7. I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.

Steven Adler

#8. Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Alaa Al Aswany

#9. I would love to do a musical. When I did 'Fame L.A.' for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting - I was in heaven. I cried so much when they cancelled the show. I mean, I loved going to work and I couldn't wait to get on the set.

Roselyn Sanchez

#10. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.

Alaa Al Aswany

#11. In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.

Andrea Della Valle

#12. A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she'll carry on loving them.

Alaa Al Aswany

#13. A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

Alaa Al Aswany

#14. When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

Chinua Achebe

#15. Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?

Alaa Al Aswany

#16. We must have a spirit of power towards the enemy, a spirit of love towards men, and a spirit of self-control towards ourselves.

Watchman Nee

#17. A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Clark Kerr

#18. Oh that short hair, a la garcon that evokes unfamiliar, boyish kinds of sex.

Alaa Al Aswany

#19. What led to September 11 is that most decision makers in the White House thought like you. They supported despotic regimes in the Middle East to multiply the profits of oil and arms companies, and armed violence escalated and reached our shores.

Alaa Al Aswany

#20. When you love what you do, it stops seeming like work and instead becomes necessity.

Caroline Leavitt

#21. Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

Alaa Al Aswany

#22. Only for Metias do I wear this unnecessarily exquisite gown, to show without words how much I love him.

Marie Lu

#23. It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42

Alaa Al Aswany

#24. A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

Alaa Al Aswany

#25. The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

George Leonard

#26. Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

Alaa Al Aswany

#27. You will not achieve true devotion in one go. The gihad of the soul, Taha, is the Greater Gihad, as the Messenger of God - God bless him and give him peace - called it." "What should I do, Master?

Alaa Al Aswany

#28. Vampire Willow: "Bored now.

Joss Whedon

#29. She represents the beauty of the common people in all its vulgarity and provocativeness.

Alaa Al Aswany

#30. Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

Darren Hayes

#31. I want a thousand guitars ...

Bruce Springsteen

#32. He had worked out long ago that police officers evaluated a citizen on the
basis of three factors - his appearance, his occupation, and the way he
spoke; according to this assessment, a citizen in a police station would
either be treated with respect or despised and beaten.

Alaa Al Aswany

#33. Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.

Janet Taylor Lisle

#34. The writer of fiction is not a scholar but an artist impacted emotionally by characters from life, who then strives to present these in his works. These characters present us with human truth but do not necessarily represent social truth.

Alaa Al Aswany