Philip K Hitti Quotes & Sayings

If you are not following your dreams then you're not truly living,
and if you are, you must completely believe in your journey! — Steven Michael Quezada

During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue. — Philip Khuri Hitti

Life itself is a disease and we're all going to die eventually. How we live our life really determines what the quality of our life is. If we can make life more worth living, we will reduce the problems of addictive behavior. — Christopher Kennedy Lawford

The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia. — Philip Khuri Hitti

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks. — Bob Beauprez

Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow. — William Arthur Ward

The Arabian peninsula is the origin of all the Semites. — Philip Khuri Hitti

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! — Iris Murdoch

The other mistake I think people make is talking to who's available rather than talking to who they need to talk to. — Emmett Shear

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory. — Rene Dubos