Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Louis Farrakhan

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Michael Scheuer

If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.

Michael Scheuer

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol in the Islamic world today. You have to remember they were soundly thrashed over the last century by the West, and in the last 50years, three times by the Indians, three times by the Israelis. And so a victory against the Soviets is huge.

Michael Scheuer

First of all, there's no separation of church and state in the Islamic world. They're one and the same. And so when President Bush or Senator Kerry or Prime Minister Blair says, "Look, adopt our secular democracy, look at how good we've done. We have a wonderful level of standard of living for our people," what many Muslims hear is, "Turn your back on God and follow what men say."

Michael Scheuer

You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

Noam Chomsky

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

H. Hunt

That was a big victory, having that provision stopped.

Demarcus Ware

There aren't any moral victories.

Chris Evert

Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Eduardo Galeano

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Dick Durbin

This was a victory for the American people,

Tessie Moton

Victory makes you want to keep going. When you see that you can do something in little steps, it's very motivating.

Donald Freed

In politics, victory is never total.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Douglas Coupland

There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.

D. J. MacHale

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

Willie Randolph

We'll get two out of three and go on the road,

Rita Rudner

I jogged for three miles once. It was the worst three hours of my life.

Timothy Leary

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.