Naguib Mahfouz Quotes

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

Naguib Mahfouz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: egyptian
  • Birth: December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

Topics

ReligionsAgainstLawsCivilized

My attitude goes back to my childhood. I used to audition for theatrical roles, and you can't stand out in a room full of ambitious eight-year-old girls by acting the wallflower. I realised then that I couldn't do things half-heartedly.

Jessie J

AttitudeChildhoodStandYouActing

From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.

John Muir

EarthSameDustCreatorUsCommon

The Thames could be thought of as England's longest archaeological site, and no fewer than 90,000 objects recovered from its foreshore are in the collection of the Museum of London, whose 30-year relationship with London mudlarks is both committed and highly regulated.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

RelationshipThoughtMuseumLondon

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

John Ross Bowie

LiveChildrenCityDoingYouDecide

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

John Petit-Senn

GoodPeopleEvilBelieveGood People

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Sophie Swetchine

FriendshipFeelTwoIdealWhile

Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

Solange Knowles

GodMyselfDecisionPersonGiveAny

I do not wish to work in the TV industry anymore.

Shilpa Shinde

WorkWishIndustryAnymoreTV

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

Mike Nichols

MoneyPeopleYouWantMythMove

I'm an American, and I live pretty well. But go down to Mexico, and a lot of people really don't. So what, we're going to blame them for trying to get out?

Michael Pena

LivePeopleBlameAmericanTrying

I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.

Michael T. Flynn

I AmWarWinFreeNameEnemy

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

Moliere

WorldBetterPlaceBetter PlaceNone

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