Top 29 Basra Quotes
#1. Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.
Rupert Everett
#2. This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#3. I asked a child, walking with a candle, 'From where comes that light?' Instantly he blew it out. 'Tell me where it is gone - then I will tell you where it came from.' (Hasan of Basra)
Idries Shah
#4. Stalin's Russia treated Jews as equals - not as superiors like the US. If Jewish nationalism were treated in England and the US as it was in Moscow in the days of Stalin, the citizens of Baghdad and Teheran, Basra and Ramallah would be able to sleep peacefully in their own homes.
Israel Shamir
#5. We remember the grind of the insurgency
the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south
your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it.
Barack Obama
#6. [New Mexico is] the only landscape . . . where Nature is as aesthetic as Art; the only landscape that can compete with the great painters.
Leo Stein
#7. Do you know what the essential problem of the piano is?" he asked. He held me so his head was a few inches from my own. His eyes darted back and forth. "It is impossible to play continuously on a piano string like a violin. The problem is to sustain a note.
Frederick Weisel
#8. You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.
Rob Roberge
#9. I am astonished about those people who are ordered to prepare their provisions, then the start of the journey is announced, however they remain unmindful in their vain discussions and fruitless deeds.
Hasan Of Basra
#10. The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.
George Henry Lewes
#11. I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
David Bergen
#13. Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, "For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45).
Tony Dungy
#14. Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.
Nenia Campbell
#15. The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.
Hasan Of Basra
#16. I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
Jason Aldean
#17. Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.
Hasan Of Basra
#18. Be firm and upright upon the commands of Allah, work to His obedience and keep away from His disobedience.
Hasan Of Basra
#19. One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
Tess Gerritsen
#21. Tell me where it is gone
then I will tell you where it came from.
Hasan Of Basra
#22. I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.
Oscar Wilde
#24. Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.
James E. Faust
#25. For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive.
Vincent Paronnaud
#27. The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.
Hasan Of Basra
#28. Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.
Hasan Of Basra
#29. I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.
Genevieve Valentine
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