Suad Amiry Quotes

#1. It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.

Suad Amiry

#2. The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
unlimited life at a single moment.

Boethius

#3. I come to listen to your pain and to hear the stories and memories of a few obsessed citizens. Jerusalem, I come to you in disguise: in over-colourful, immodest clothes and vulgar make-up... The only way I could come to you was in disguise, as a whore.

Suad Amiry

#4. The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

Brene Brown

#5. But this was the present moment - the party the camel driver had mentioned - and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.

Paulo Coelho

#6. When it comes to Jews, you have a two-thousand-year memory, but when it comes to us Palestinians, you have a sixty-year amnesia.

Suad Amiry

#7. There is no other place on this earth where I feel such a strong sense of being a stranger than in my historic homeland.

Suad Amiry

#8. daily and hourly presence and keeping, were preached with the same distinctness and urgency

Andrew Murray

#9. The Palestinians try hard to forget when they should remember.
The Israelis try hard to remember when they should forget.
The Palestinians refuse to be victims.
The Israelis make sure that they remain the only victims.

Suad Amiry

#10. It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#11. I tell you,Huda,with the with the service-free arnona they impose on us and the many fines and penalties we East Jerusalem Arabs pay them, we've become the casino where they always win...or even better, the cash cow that they continue to milk.

Suad Amiry

#12. Nothing makes sense, why should I?

Suad Amiry

#13. Only then did I realise that for me, and many others, Israel was virtual. For Murad, Israel was 'home.' Israel was a reality; a harsh reality.

Suad Amiry

#14. The trick to finding writing time is to make writing time in the life you've already got.

Julia Cameron

#15. I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

Adam Mansbach

#16. Wow, James, you really do get around, don't you!

Andrew Man

#17. A thousand times a coward and not once a dead man

Suad Amiry

#18. Needless to say, in a country where nothing makes sense only crazy acts do.

Suad Amiry

#19. The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

Hugh Ross

#20. The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths.

Veronica Roth

#21. Truthfulness itself is almost medication, even when it's served without advice or insight.

Augusten Burroughs

#22. Spending so much time stuffing everything that lent itself to filling in any way or form, I am not surprised that the Jerusalemites never had time to raise their heads or look out of their windows to see what their neighbours were up to.

Suad Amiry

#23. I really like it that they promote from within.

Carson Daly

#24. The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

Agnes Repplier

#25. AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Larry Kramer