Cairo Time Quotes

#1. If you're in a system where you must make profit in order to survive. You are compelled to ignore negative externalities, effects on others.

Noam Chomsky

#2. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#3. An Egyptian newspaper once publicly identified me as the C.I.A. station chief in Cairo. It seemed so stupid at the time. I was only 24, a little young to be a station chief, and, of course, I was never with the C.I.A.

Richard Engel

#4. The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

G. Willow Wilson

#5. King is delighted. He ask one old woman walking by if she wasn't too old for this, ask her if her feet not tired. My feet is tired she say, but my soul is rested.

Arthur Flowers

#6. between the beginning of time and 2003, humanity generated roughly five exabytes of data, whereas we now produce the same volume of bits every two days.

Alberto Cairo

#7. That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and it's tough. It doesn't work.

Eddie Vedder

#8. Which he needs time and privacy. What better way of keeping us in Cairo,

Elizabeth Peters

#9. This is indeed a funny country. Yesterday, for example, we were in a cafe which is one of the best in Cairo, and there were, at the same time as ourselves, inside, a donkey shitting, and a gentleman who was pissing in a corner. No one finds that odd; no one says anything.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. Character, writes Amitai Etzioni, the George Washington University social theorist, is "the psychological muscle that moral conduct requires."14

Daniel Goleman

#11. Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

Neal Shusterman

#12. This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Juvenal

#13. The closest to perfection people ever come is when they write their resumes .

John C. Maxwell

#14. The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century's finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.

Neil Peart