Barghouti Quotes

#1. But there's no one to find me now, is there? This time I have to find our own way, and it is hard, so hard.

George R R Martin

#2. Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

Mourid Barghouti

#3. You look out of the car window on your right and are surprised to find that the narrow, worn strip that carries you has turned into a wide, smooth elegant road. The asphalt shines, and soon it separates out, rising to a hill with classy building, and you realize it leads to a settlement.

Mourid Barghouti

#4. He had the most beautiful smile despite his gold teeth, because his smile was formed essentially in his eyes.

Mourid Barghouti

#5. Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

Srikumar Rao

#6. One can lie, but truth is more interesting.

Enid Bagnold

#7. Making children happy is the best art.

Marty Rubin

#8. I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every other oppressed person has advocated-the right to help myself in the absence of help from anywhere else.

Marwan Barghouti

#9. One thing I've found in life - and you may have noticed it, too - is that beer often can make things seem better. I'm not sure why this is, but it's a phenomenon I've observed enough times that I can confidently declare it to be true.

Sean Pronger

#10. How can I fight so hard for freedom only to be enticed by captivity?

Kyra Davis

#11. It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Lu Xun

#12. Not only do the oppressed lose nothing when people of conscience boycott institutions that are persistently complicit in the system of oppression; in fact, they gain enormously from the ultimate weakening of this complicity that an effective and sustained boycott leads to.

Omar Barghouti

#13. In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?

Mourid Barghouti

#14. Peace without justice is equivalent to institutionalizing injustice.

Omar Barghouti

#15. Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.

John Steinbeck

#16. The course of true love rarely runs smooth.

Jasper Fforde

#17. If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

Mourid Barghouti

#18. Nathaniel suddenly felt as if he'd been plonked into an I Dream of Jeannie episode.

Amy Andrews

#19. Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

Jimmy Demaret

#20. The fish,
Even in the fisherman's net,
Still carries,
The smell of the sea.

Mourid Barghouti

#21. If you take care of everything inside of you, God will take care of everything outside of you.

Kate McGahan

#22. BDS is perhaps the most ambitious, empowering, and promising Palestinian-led global movement for justice and rights. BDS has the capacity to challenge Israel's colonial rule and apartheid in a morally consistent, effective, and, crucially, intelligent manner.

Omar Barghouti

#23. I want to dunk on Kevin Hart.

Ansel Elgort

#24. Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.

Todd Solondz