Refaat Quotes

#1. No one had told me that the tax of playing big will be having to play big all the time. At first I chased my dream for me. Now I chase my dreams as a service for humanity. When I do so, people dare to chase their own dreams. They look up at me and get motivated to play big.

Iman Refaat

#2. Of all the people around me, you know best that it takes two to complete a story; it always does

Refaat Alareer

#3. When we disempower women we actually corrupt the world.

Iman Refaat

#4. Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story.

Refaat Alareer

#5. I still don't get golf.

Lance Armstrong

#6. When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

John Kasich

#7. Practice the art of what, where, when.

Iman Refaat

#8. What to tell you? Gaza is frustrating these days - well, these years. It's a good exercise in patience, at least.

Refaat Alareer

#9. Find creative ways to express your love.

Iman Refaat

#10. I am, day after day, falling in love with the years that dwell in his wrinkled face and the memories of the old days which are the beats of his weak heart.

Refaat Alareer

#11. I'm not going to do anything stupid. And even if what I plan is risky and insane, it's a well-thought-out level of stupidity.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like a scared bird, waving one wing and using the other to hide his scar. Aya Rabah- Scars

Refaat Alareer

#13. Gaza Writes Back' provides conclusive evidence that telling stories is an act of life, that telling stories is resistance, and that telling stories shapes our memories.

Refaat Alareer

#14. All that I can tell you is that nothing can justify it, not even the most sacred ends in the world, not even peace itself, understand me?'
'Yes, Mom. Nothing can justify our scars.

Refaat Alareer

#15. If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance,I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it

Refaat Alareer

#16. What is there beyond the sky?' I asked my mother.
'Paradise.'
'What does it look like?'
'Like children's dreams.

Refaat Alareer

#17. A picture is not going to be like a stone that has been subjected to the rain and the heat and the cold and the dirt and the smell of Jerusalem. This stone is Jerusalem. It is.

Refaat Alareer

#18. So many times, I tried to imagine how he would look like and always ended up believing he is no more than a faceless monster.

Refaat Alareer

#19. It took only one gunshot. His brother and the canary were silenced forever, in front of his eyes ...

Refaat Alareer

#20. One person can bring favor to many during the storm.

Beth Moore

#21. I get the feeling you're going to push me to that point and I'm going to have to show you how far I'm willing to go to get what I want." - Theoden from Embraced: Chained in Darkness

Nicholas Bella