Top 36 Quotes About Saladin
#1. We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate of all human tongues. "
" Well it sounds like a Racoon clearing it's throat.
John Green
#2. When the Byzantine emperor Isaac Angelus demanded it for the Orthodox, Saladin decided that they must share it under his supervision and appointed Sheikh Ghanim al-Khazraji as Custodian of the Church, a role still performed today by his descendants, the Nusseibeh family.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#3. Amy hugged Sinead, and Dan scratched Saladin. Later, Saladin. Take it easy on Kabra. On second thought, don't.
Gordon Korman
#4. Take the operation, Gabriel - for Hannah Weinberg, if for no other reason. Get inside the network. Find out who Saladin really is and where he's operating. And then put him down before another bomb explodes." Gabriel
Daniel Silva
#5. It's cat food - it's for people like you!" Saladin
Gordon Korman
#6. Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#7. If you do not leave this pasturage, Saladin will come and attack you here. And if you retreat from this attack the shame and reproach will be very great.
Gerard De Ridefort
#8. When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another.
Salman Rushdie
#9. The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.
Robert Aris Willmott
#10. Eight centuries have passed
like a nap in the late afternoon
my throat is choked
with words I cannot speak
(from The Last Soldier's Words to Saladin)
Najwan Darwish
#11. I Will Rise One Day
I will rise one day and speak it
I, the Kurd, will rise one day
and speak it
I, the Amazigh, your voice
will rise one day
I, the Arab you know
will rise one day
and speak it:
They've gone now, Saladin
Najwan Darwish
#12. Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered.
Amine Maalouf
#13. Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
Charles Dickens
#14. I have served Almighty God as best as I can. I have failed at times, but "Perfection is the palace in which God alone lives.
Saladin Ahmed
#15. Regard the Franj! Behold with what obstinacy they fight for their religion, while we, the Muslims, show no enthusiasm for waging holy war.
Kenneth S. Saladin
#16. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Woody Allen
#17. If you're writing a story and YOU can't wait to see how it all pans out, then you are doing something right.
Giuseppe Bianco
#18. If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation
Saladin
#19. It is not the custom of kings to kill kings.
Saladin
#20. The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.
Wendy Beckett
#21. They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#22. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
#23. The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.
Martin E. Marty
#24. One can only know as much as one has lived to know, though it is certainly possible to learn a great deal less than this.
Saladin Ahmed
#25. Ahhh, God's balls! The Horrible Halt!" Adoulla pronounced the Dhamsawaati term for the complete standstill of traffic with a familiar disgust.
Saladin Ahmed
#26. I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#27. I have become so great as I am because I have won men's hearts by gentleness and kindliness.
Saladin
#28. Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.
Gordon Korman
#29. I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.
Saladin
#30. When one faces two ghuls, waste no time wishing for fewer.
Saladin Ahmed
#31. I spent many years in grad school in English, so I've read a lot in a variety of genres. But adventure fantasy is my bread and butter as a reader, and probably always will be. So it's only natural that I came to that genre as a writer.
Saladin Ahmed
#33. My uniform: grey suit, white shirt, grey tie and tie bar, grey cardigan and black wingtips.
Thom Browne
#34. The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.
Anthony D. Williams
#35. European merchants supply the best weaponry, contributing to their own defeat.
Saladin
#36. My writerly aspirations are pretty simple: to provide as many readers as possible with the same sort of wonderful immersion that I myself get from fantasy novels - and to make enough money to help feed my kids while doing so.
Saladin Ahmed
