#arab

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. ↗

— James Buchan

#dictators #east #justice #middle #middle east

What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head. ↗

— James Buchan

#arab #both #defended #end #felt

Everything that could produce a clash between the Arab world and the West seemed dangerous to me. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#arab world #between #clash #could #dangerous

I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#arabia #autobiographical #bit #consideration #i

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith. ↗

— Austin Farrer

#acts #christ #christian #christian faith #divine

I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates. ↗

— Francine Busby

#arab #emirates #i #learn #operations

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#antagonism #economic #economic freedom #freedom #gold

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. ↗

— Albert Camus

#despair #drives #eternity #glimpse #like