Top 100 Rashid Quotes
#1. You are ridiculous, Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. I am just one girl. You are the Caliph of Khorasan, and you have a responsibility to a kingdom."
"If you are just one girl, I am just one boy.
Renee Ahdieh
#2. I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.
The Cookie Monster.
Whatever, Rashid
Rion Amilcar Scott
#4. God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.
Common
#5. She grabbed her phone and texted her were friend.
Philippa: Do weres have sex in animal form?
Georgie: Sure, Rashid and I had some wolf on hyena loving last night.
Philippa: Really?
Georgie: No, you twat. That's called bestiality.
Chessela Helm
#6. Oh!" Hadassah said, a catch in her throat. "Put me down, please."
Rashid knew in that instant they were in the lion's den.
Francine Rivers
#7. I appreciate my brother, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the U.A.E. and Ruler of Dubai, and the Council of Ministers, who face every morning challenges, but plan and remove all obstacles to score achievements.
Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
#8. Some things do not have to be said. You didn't have to tell me you were in love with Khalid Ibn al-Rashid. And I didn't have to tell you I cried myself to sleep for weeks after you left. Love speaks for itself.
Renee Ahdieh
#9. Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3
Noam Chomsky
#10. Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.
Salman Rushdie
#11. Most people talk; we do things. They plan; we achieve. They hesitate; we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#12. The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#13. The thing that turned out to be interesting about CB radios was the ability to call out in the world with anonymity. You choose your handle. Race and class become non-signifiers.
Rashid Johnson
#14. Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
Osman Rashid
#16. Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#18. I hope that with the success of the transition to democracy in Tunisia that we will export to Egypt a working democratic model.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#19. Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
Osman Rashid
#20. My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
Rashid Johnson
#21. A true leader is one who creates a favourable environment to bring out the energy and ability of his team. A great leader creates more great leaders, and does not reduce the institution to a single person.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#22. I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
Rashid Johnson
#23. Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me and by my father. But, most of all, by Shazi. With her, he is as fiercely loved as he loves.
Renee Ahdieh
#24. I wanted my art to deal with very formal concerns and to deal with very material concerns, and to deal with antecedents and art history, which for me go very far beyond just the influence of African-American artists.
Rashid Johnson
#25. Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#26. This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
Rashid Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
#27. I used to sleep in the desert once every week, now it is every two weeks, most of the time alone. It's beautiful. What I enjoy is taking my food and cooking for myself.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#28. My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and antennas. It felt alien.
Rashid Johnson
#29. I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#30. My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch, and that we be conscious and sensorially attuned to this world in this moment that we are alive.
Karim Rashid
#31. Although failure is a great teacher, we cannot afford the time to learn from our failures. Human societies cannot be subjected to such a process.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#32. My father owned a small company, called Gundel Electronics, where he did community band radio and some repair stuff.
Rashid Johnson
#33. An easy life does not make men, nor does it build nations. Challenges make men, and it is these men who build nations.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#34. 'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me.
Rashid Johnson
#35. At the moment, we don't deserve international cricket in our country. The security situation is poor here.
Rashid Latif
#36. I believe that positive energy and optimism help us to take up any challenge in life and to succeed in even the most difficult tasks. I also believe that positive energy is contagious: we can transmit it to others.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#37. Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
Osman Rashid
#38. Whoever convinces himself that he is not worthy of first position has doomed himself to failure from the very beginning.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#39. My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#40. We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#41. Our vision is sharp, our goals are clear, our resources are huge, our will is strong and we stand tall, ready to face the challenges ahead.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#42. The way that light hits objects in life, three-dimensional objects before you photograph them, is really the story of photography.
Rashid Johnson
#44. By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.
Osman Rashid
#48. Does running water stop when it reaches a rock? Of course not. It turns either left or right, and continues its way. Likewise, a positive person is confident that no challenge will stand in the way of achieving his or her goal.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#49. I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.
Karim Rashid
#52. I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.
Rashid Johnson
#53. We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.
Karim Rashid
#54. Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.
Rashid Johnson
#55. I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.
Rashid Johnson
#56. A loss is often a win delayed. A win at times is a loss defrayed. Equanimity with either is the real crusade.
Rashid Osmani
#57. For the price of a couple of Happy Meals, you can buy a digital textbook and stop your child from having to carry around a six-pound book.
Osman Rashid
#58. Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#59. Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.
Osman Rashid
#60. Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#62. As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.
Rashid Johnson
#63. I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.
Rashid Johnson
#64. I believe democracy will succeed in Tunisia, but I also believe that it will succeed in the other Arab Spring countries.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#65. We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they're going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands. Designers should create their own beautiful brands that can change the world.
Karim Rashid
#66. We can speak of war as vehemently as some others do, but because we believe otherwise as Muslims, we prefer to speak of peace.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#68. Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.
Karim Rashid
#69. We expect our media to lead and open doors for our young talents. As we need creative engineers, doctors and managers, we also need creative journalists and media workers.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#70. What Tunisia urgently needs, is freedom and the building of a real democracy.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#71. I am as confident that all the elements needed in a distinguished Arab development process are available, as I am about the ability of Arabs to achieve their goals.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#74. The whole ability to look at the complexity of race and any sort of associated -ism and still find humor, that's a very interesting space.
Rashid Johnson
#75. Growing up in Chicago, there was a very particular type of home that would display the black Jesus figure. It wasn't a radical home. You wouldn't find these in a Black Panther house. There's still a strong allegiance to Christianity.
Rashid Johnson
#77. Life was created simple and it is important to live it as such. Simplicity is inherent; it leads to peace of mind and tranquility.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#80. As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
Rashid Johnson
#81. Today's Arab crisis is not one of money, men, morale, land or resources ... The real crisis is rather one of leadership, management and perennial egotism.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#82. It is such a beautiful life, but many people spend it worrying, burdened and frowning. You can easily see the beauty of life in the laughter of a child, the tenderness of a mother, the smile of a friend or the love of a compassionate wife.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#83. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
Rashid Johnson
#85. I don't have any other skills. Some artists say that to mean that their embodied passion for art gave them no choice. I say it, very specifically, to say that I really didn't have any other options.
Rashid Johnson
#86. There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#87. No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#88. My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#89. Good leadership puts the interests of the community as a whole before those of any specific group. Credibility of leadership can only be established through action and not words.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#91. If the owner of a franchise is approached and promised good money for his team to lose an irrelevant game, he tells his players to lose the game and they don't care because they get paid huge amounts anyway.
Rashid Latif
#92. Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
Karim Rashid
#93. There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#95. I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.
Rashid Johnson
#96. There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam.
Rashid Al-Ghannushi
#97. My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
Rashid Johnson
#98. When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work.
Rashid Johnson
#99. I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
