Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Winwood Reade

The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.

Zahi Hawass

Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript.

William Hague

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

Northrop Frye

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

Mohammed Morsi

Egyptians are always and will always be supportive of their Palestinian brothers, all Palestinians.

Pierre Loti

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.

Nawal El Saadawi

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.

Mike Johanns

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

Elliott Abrams

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking dignity and hope is being rejected each day in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain and throughout the Arab lands.

Woody Allen

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Richard D. James

A lot of composers before me have been on this mission to change the world by getting off equal temperament, and I'm definitely one of those.

Lord Shaftesbury

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Robert Collier

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Rob Thurman

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others.

Rob Sheffield

'I'll Tumble 4 Ya' has to be one of the most ridiculous hit singles that any international superstars have given the world.

Richard P. Feynman

Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile.

Richard Dawkins

Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

Science is the disinterested search for the objective truth about the material world.

Richard Wright

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.