Farouk Quotes & Sayings

If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner. — Duncan Hines

Every country should have at least one King Farouk. — Gore Vidal

You know it's easy here to buy journalists. — Emile Lahoud

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left
the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds. — Farouk Of Egypt

As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of this if she has to take on every German and Turkish agent in the Middle East. — Elizabeth Peters

I am proud to kill in the name of God. — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

the higher you reach, the lower the bow — Farouk Gulsara

A definite highlight was doing 'The Brothers McMullen.' Shooting that movie was such a joy - and then we wound up winning the Sundance Film Festival. That big-break moment is visceral. It happens once in a decade, maybe once in a lifetime. — Connie Britton

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct. — Jane Austen

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function. — Elliott Abrams

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance — Farouk Of Egypt

The Quran obliges every able Muslim to participate in jihad and fight in the way of Allah those who fight you, and kill them wherever you find them ... an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew. — Melanie Mayron

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards. — Farouk Of Egypt

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma. — Albert Schweitzer

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped. — Nawal El Saadawi

Break a bone..and as the broken part heals it becomes the strongest part in it ... get hit by a virus, survive that and "supposedly" it can never get u again ... observe how ur skin that gets rubbed on a surface often becomes thicker and more rough with time ... remember how naive you were before and with each incident and accident with people that you've had ..it brought you to the "knowing better" person you are now ... you cant be stronger..if life doesn't try you every now and then ... and after each trial..it promises a stronger more immune version of you — Eman Farouk