Nahda Quotes & Sayings

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins. — Eric Schlosser

I tour a lot, sometimes like a hundred shows a year. — Bryan Ferry

Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It's what makes the two of them so dangerous. (Jericho)
No. It's our willingness to believe their lies and to see what we want to see that makes it so dangerous. Even when we know better, we lie to ourselves and that's where the true betrayal is. (Jared) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

Will you marry me?"
I was in shock for a full ten seconds before I realized what was happening. I threw my arms around him and kissed him as hard as I could.
"Is that a yes?" he asked, when I pulled away.
"Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" I shrieked.
His face broke into a wide smile. "Thank God," he said then. — Monica Alexander

For if there is one lesson worth retaining from the travails of the Cold War and the miseries it brought in its wake, it is the folly of seeking simple answers to complicated questions. It is a lesson which governments still show no sign of learning. — Philip Short

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing. — Stephen Root

Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand. — Linda Stitt

Learning to read clusters is not something your eyes do naturally. It takes constant practice. — Bill Cosby

There is no one in al-Nahda that is 'violence is a means of change or to keep power.' Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

People froze you in place, Rebecca sometimes thought, trudging through the woods. More important, you froze yourself, often into a person in whom you truly had no interest. So you had a choice: you could continue a masquerade, or you could give up on it. — Anna Quindlen

No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

I smile, loving him for changing with me, for going where my Neglect has taken us, for getting the new me. — Lisa Genova

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors. — Voltaire

There are common denominators that unite all members of al-Nahda: There is no one in al-Nahda who doubts about Islam There is no one in al-Nahda that believes in extremist views of Islam. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi