Ghassan Kanafani Quotes

#1. Because you need me and if this is my last hour with you, I'm not going to waste another second of it.

Molly McAdams

#2. [I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

Mark Haddon

#3. But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.

Pamela Druckerman

#4. My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and I can categorically state that I became politically committed because I am a novelist, not the opposite.

Ghassan Kanafani

#5. All right then, Daisy and I will have our usual.
I wondered what that might be. Evil Juice? Some kind of demonic energy drink?

Rachel Hawkins

#6. But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.

John Abizaid

#7. Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

Ghassan Kanafani

#8. The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

Ghassan Kanafani

#9. I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

Hale Irwin

#10. From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven.

Stella Young

#11. If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

Ghassan Kanafani

#12. way, please call.

John Grisham

#13. I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

Jill Biden

#14. You have something in this world, so stand for it.

Ghassan Kanafani

#15. There are only two people in this world to whom I would never lie, Sassenach," he said softly. "Ye're one of them. And I'm the other.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Why didn't you bang the sides of the tank? Why didn't you say anything?

Ghassan Kanafani

#17. Everything in this world can be robbed and stolen, except one thing; this one thing is the love that emanates from a human being towards a solid commitment to a conviction or cause.

Ghassan Kanafani

#18. I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.

Robert Torricelli

#19. I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Ed Harris

#20. And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.

J.R.R. Tolkien