Saeed Quotes & Sayings

When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world, and so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope. — Mohsin Hamid

As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.' — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

THE BLUE DRESS

Her blue dress is a silk train is a river
is water seeps into the cobblestone steps of my sleep, is still raining
is monsoon brocade, is winter stars stitched into puddles
is goodbye in a flooded, antique room, is goodbye in a room of crystal bowls
and crystal cups, is the ring-ting-ring of water dripping from the mouths
of crystal bowls and crystal cups, is the Mississippi river is a hallway, is leaks
like tears from windowsills of a drowned house, is windows open to waterfalls
is a bed is a small boat is a ship, is a currant come to carry me in its arms
through the streets, is me floating in her dress through the streets
is the moon sees me floating through the streets, is me in a blue dress
out to sea, is my mother is a moon out to sea. — Saeed Jones

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was Saeed and her name was Nadia and he had a beard, not a full beard, more a studiously maintained stubble, and she was always clad from the tips of her toes to the bottom of her jugular notch in a flowing black robe. Back then people continued to enjoy the luxury of wearing more or less what they wanted to wear, clothing and hair wise, within certain bounds of course, and so these choices meant something. — Mohsin Hamid

What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I've lined my throat
with the river bottom's best
silt,

allowed my fingers to shrivel
and be taken for crawfish.

I've laced my eyelashes with algae.

I blink emerald.
I blink sea glass green.

I am whatever gleams
just under the surface.

Scoop at my sparkle. I'll give you nothing
but disturbed reflection.

Bring your ear to the water
and I'll sing you

down into my arms.

Let me show you how

to make your lungs
a home for minnows, how

to let them flicker

like silver

in and out of your mouth
like last words,

like air. — Saeed Jones

I have studied Murad Saeed's case myself, He have not submitted any fake degree. Its a conspiracy against him. If he had any fears, if he was guilty he wouldn't have went to court. — Imran Khan

But what about the secret I bear?" I asked.
"Tell it to the world," he advised.
And that is what I am doing. — Emile Habiby

Beg for Love.
Consider this burning, and those who
burn, as gifts from the Friend.
Nothing to learn.
Too much has already been said.
When you read a single page from
the silent book of your heart,
you will laugh at all this chattering,
all this pretentious learning. — Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

PRETENDING TO DROWN

The only regret is that I waited
longer than a breath
to scatter the sun's reflection
with my body.

New stars burst upon the water
when you pulled me in.

On the shore, our clothes
begged us to be good boys again.

Every stick our feet touched
a snapping turtle, every shadow
a water moccasin.

Excuses to swim closer to one another.

I sank into the depths to see you
as the lake saw you: cut in half
by the surface, taut legs kicking,
the rest of you sky.

Suddenly still, a clear view
of what you knew I wanted
to see.

When I resurfaced, slick grin,
knowing glance; you pushed me
back under.

I pretended to drown,
then swallowed you whole. — Saeed Jones

The grapes of my body can only become wine after the winemaker tramples me. I surrender my spirit like grapes to his trampling so my inmost heart can blaze and dance with joy. Although the grapes go on weeping blood and sobbing: "I cannot bear any more anguish, and more cruelty" The trampler stuffs cotton in his ears: "I am not working in ignorance. You can deny Me if you want, you have every excuse, but it is I who am the Master of this work. And when through My Passion you reach perfection you will never be done praising My Name."[326] — Saeed Malik

Now here was Saeed Saeed, and Biju's admiration for the man confounded him. Fate worked this way. Biju was overcome by the desire to be his friend, because Saeed Saeed wasn't drowning, he was bobbing in the tides. — Kiran Desai

The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch. — Nick Harkaway

They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I speak better English than this villain, Bush. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

If a gurl understands your bullshit, stcks through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for, It'z obvious she's a keeper but itz also obvious dont deserve her either — Saeed Jones

We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed — Mohsin Hamid

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The criminals will be humiliated ... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The information was correct, but the interpretation was not — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries? — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Muslims in the West and those in other intellectually free societies will be in a position to contribute to Islamic thought more so than those who are based in repressive environments where censorship and restriction on freedom still dominate thinking. The future development of Islamic thought may depend to a certain extent on the degree of intellectual freedom in Muslim societies. — Abdullah Saeed

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Don't repeat the lies of the liars. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Let's go and do jihad — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They think we are retarded. They are retarded. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies! — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Hey had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The day Love was illumined,
Lovers learned from You how to burn, Beloved.
The flame was set by the Friend
to give the moth a gate to enter.
Love is a gift from the Beloved to the Lover. — Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad ... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

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

Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

He prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world. — Mohsin Hamid

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The way people choose to think and feel about the world. Each ideology has its own version of the truth." "So, who is right?" Saeed smiled and looked into his son's eyes. "The one that is just and better still, the one that is just and kind. — AbdulKarim Al Makadma

Our initial assessment is that they will all die. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The insane little dwarf, Bush. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are most welcome. We will butcher them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They are again in the dirt in the desert — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

With a metal heart
I came to this life,
My head was a crucible, full of elixir.
Pearl by pearl
My heart was poured,
Drop by drop
My head was splashed.
The world was entirely a magnet. — Hersh Saeed

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved. — Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf