Qasr Quotes & Sayings

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse, that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nassariyeh the latter a city which briefly rose in successful revolt against Saddam in 1991 why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad? — Robert Fisk

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours. — Edmund Burke

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Always, it seemed, men would overlook unpleasant things for the sake of those that went well. The statues' eyes for the melodious sounds of the fountain. The deaths of their daughters for the bounty of their trade.
There was great beauty in this qasr, but there was also great ugliness and fear. I would not be like those men who turned their eyes from one to see the other. I would remember what those things cost. — E.K. Johnston

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. — Moliere

Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege. — Swami Vivekananda

Jesus was crucified by Rome because his messianic aspirations threatened the occupation of Palestine, and his zealotry endangered the Temple authorities. — Reza Aslan