Best Arabian Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What benefit have the Hindus derived from their contact with Christian nations? The idea generally prevalent in this country about the morality and truthfulness of the Hindus evidently has been very low. Such seeds of enmity and hatred have been sown by the missionaries that it would be an almost Herculean task to establish better relations between India and America... If we examine Greek, Chinese, Persian, or Arabian writings on the Hindus, before foreigners invaded India, we find an impartial description of their national character. Megasthenes, the famous Greek ambassador, praises them for their love of truth and justice, for the absence of slavery, and for the chastity of their women. Arrian, in the second century, Hiouen-thsang, the famous Buddhist pilgrim in the seventh century, Marco Polo in the thirteenth century, have written in highest terms of praise of Hindu morality. The literature and philosophy of Ancient India have excited the admiration of all scholars, except Christian missionaries.”

Source: The Monist

“She had streaked blonde hair, long and straight, parted in the middle framing high cheek bones, an aquiline nose and beautiful deep blue eyes. She was young, around 30, tall and lithe with a good body, athletic, not skinny. She wore a sleeveless black dress that exposed her toned arms and shoulders, indicating regular workouts or yoga. There was a hint of vein running the length of her lean muscle. This girl stood out like an arabian in a corral full of draft horses.”

Yoga Affair Blonde Horses Arabian Adultry Corral

Author:Nick Hahn

“Asad waited in one of the end stalls, watching alertly as Kathleen approached. His head lifted, his ears perking forward in recognition. He was a compact gelding with powerful hindquarters, an elegant conformation that afforded both speed and endurance. His coloring was a shade of chestnut so light it appeared golden, his mane and tail flaxen. "There's my boy," Kathleen exclaimed gently, reaching out to him with her palm upward. Asad sniffed at her hand and gave her a welcoming nicker. Lowering his finely modeled head, he moved to the front of the stall. She stroked his nose and forehead, and he reacted with pure gladness, blowing softly and nudging closer. "I shouldn't have waited so long to see you," she said, overcome with remorse. Clumsily she leaned to kiss the space between the horse's eyes. She felt him nibble delicately at the shoulder of her dress, trying to groom her. A crooked grin twisted her lips. Pushing his head away, she scratched his satiny neck in the way she knew he liked. "I shouldn't have left you alone, my poor boy." Her fingers tangled in the white-blond mane. She felt the weight of his head come to rest on her shoulder. The trusting gesture caused her throat to cinch around a quick breath.”

Horse Arabian Kathleen Ravenel Asad

Book:Cold-Hearted Rake

Source: Cold-Hearted Rake

“Red smoke came rising out of the bottle, and Jasmine scrambled backward, crying out in panic. Something fiery within was pulling itself free, and though she tried to slam the lid back on, she was too late. The fire had escaped. It was growing larger and larger before her eyes, but the opposite of the Genie's comforting blue appearance. This creature had spotted red skin and flaming yellow eyes; it had claws longer than Jasmine's arms and dark hooves for feet. Jasmine had never seen anything so terrifying in her life. She trembled, staring up at the demon, which looked like it had crawled off the pages of one of Taminah's books. "The Story of Dahish the Ifrit." She could almost hear her tutor's voice again now. "A tale of a jinn who chose darkness." It was real... all of it. There was only one thing this demonic creature looming above her could be: an ifrit, evil jinn of the underworld. Just like the creature Jafar had turned into when he made his fateful final wish on the lamp--- the Genie's malevolent opposite.”

Demon Arabian Jinn Ifrit Jafar

Book:Realm of Wonders

Source: Realm of Wonders

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”

War Inspiration Motivational Action Moving Three Attitude Class Society Mankind Enlightenment Divided Total War Arabian

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?”

Youth Birth Cried Echoes Arabian

Book:The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

Source: The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes

“Saudi Arabian police arrested seven teenage boys for leering at women. In accordance with Saudi law, the boys will be whipped and the women will be stoned to death.”

Law Boys Police Seven Teenage Arrested Saudis Arabian

Author:Tina Fey

“The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.”

Source: A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832

“For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.”

Way Writing Heart Matter Goal Effort Company Sacrifice Journey Achievement Harder Plant Desert Maps Hardship Exploration Venture Attainment Unimportant Finding Peace Arabian

Book:Arabian Sands

Source: Arabian Sands

“Supporters of Osama bin Laden want to rename the Arabian Sea after bin Laden's death. They want to call it "Martyr's Sea." Please, hiding in your bedroom for six years with the blinds closed? How about "Chicken of the Sea?”

Want Years Sea Please Six Chickens Hiding Bedroom Supporter Martyr Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden Arabian

Author:Jay Leno

“We liberate our nation's heart inside of Indonesian independence!! Ibn Saud liberated Arabian's heart inside of Saudi Arabian independence one by one!! Stalin liberated Soviet-Russian's heart inside of Soviet one by one!!”

Heart Nations Independence Soviet Liberated Saudis Arabian

Author:Sukarno

“On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.”

Sometimes Feelings Hands Faces Courses Hurt Heard Minutes Over It Seconds Get Over Hurt Feelings Saudis Arabian

Author:Pat Condell

“A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.”

May Said Wife Car Oil Rise Above Saudis Barrels Arabian

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!”

Men Lucky Mouths Luck Fishes Come Up Arabian Nile Lucky Man

Author:Nathaniel Parker Willis

“The Arabian horse will not plough well, nor can the plough-horse be rode to play the jereed.”

Wells Play Essence Horse Arabian

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.”

Firsts Children Tree Example Instructors Figs Arabian

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which it dwells. Genii, unknown to Arabian fable, wait at the portal. Whatever is most precious from the loom or the mine of fancy is poured at its feet. Love, purified by contemplation, visits and cheers it; unseen musicians are heard in the dark; it is Psyche in the palace of Cupid.”

Hands Poetry Waiting Dark Heard Feet Mines Broken Taste Musician Contemplation Fancy Cheer Fabric Unseen Magician Palaces Fables Wands Portal Cupid Arabian

Book:Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

Source: Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature

“I've been busy with a long memorandum about the whole of our central Arabian relations, which I've just finished. It will now go to all the High and Mighty in every part. One can't do much more than sit and record if one is of my sex, devil take it; one can get the things recorded in the right way and that means, I hope, that unconsciously people will judge events as you think they ought to be judged. But it's small change for doing things, very small change I feel at times.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Mean Long Whole Sex Records Events Judging Ought Devil Relation Busy Finished Sexism Judged Right Way Inaction Arabian Small Changes Memorandum

Author:Gertrude Bell

“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.”

“I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.”

Ifs Want Giving Brother Please Appreciate Oil Brothers And Sisters Jet Saudis Arabian Shout Out

Author:Puff Daddy

“The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there.”

Ifs Doe Two Moving Used Animal Taken Greater Battle Weight Burden Obliged Merchants Observant Lodges Arabian

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.”

Source: Little Women: Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

“Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films, but I also just couldn't resist throwing in the disruptive. It seems to me that art-house film is at its glorious zenith right now, maybe it can even get better? There's just so many good films, you know Cemetery Of Splendour, Arabian Nights, Miguel Gomes, just so much great work coming out.”

“The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.”

“All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only, - those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or Arabian prophets for their founders.”

Book Lines Happened Divine Eternal Universal Infinite Property Prophet Contradiction Sole Founders Shut Up Fanaticism Arabian Vedas

Book:The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

Source: The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice

“Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.”

“For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.”

Made Law Night Company Gone Magic Share Example Objects Changed Ordinary Made It Smoke Bottles Venture Lamps Carpet Printed Seals Mississippi Charmed Inscriptions Arabian Jinn Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.”

People Stories Night Cities Class Middle Personality Models Wide Traditional Range Middle Class Traveler Merchants Traders Arabian Aristocratic Living In The City Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.”

Mind Stories Night Courses Female Storyteller Parades Of My Mind Ghouls Sirens Arabian Sorceress Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.”

“The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of the negative things that appeal to people, that The Arabian Nights could be used as a disguise for racism. It suited the West. You could smuggle racism into children's literature, you see. The African magician in the story of Aladdin, he's labeled explicitly as the "African Magician." He's not a character but a stereotype, and a lot of this got into nursery literature in this Oriental disguise.”

“There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world.”

Thinking World Way Kind Book Whole Night Differences Wonderful Figures Example Position Ears Flying Scales Speculation Great Book Arabian Gulliver Arabian Nights Gulliver's Travels

Author:Marina Warner

“Any strong Muslim regime that threatens Israel, and we did. He said the Americans only want oil, and, of course, Iraq has the second-largest reserves. And he said that we will always replace God's law with manmade law. And finally that we intended to occupy and destroy Islamic sanctities. And I suspect that in our government, very few people knew that Iraq was the second-holiest place in Islam, after the Arabian Peninsula.”

People Want Said Government Law Courses Strong Islam Iraq Israel Oil Islamic Suspects Regimes Reserves Sanctity Arabian Peninsulas

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Iraq, for the first time, gives al Qaeda and its allies contiguous safe-haven territory to train and launch attacks into the Levant. First into Jordan and Syria, and then into Lebanon, and virtually and ultimately into Israel and probably Egypt too. It also gives them haven to eventually work their way toward Turkey and into the Arabian Peninsula.”

Way Giving Firsts Havens Safe First Time Train Iraq Israel Als Territory Allies Syria Egypt Turkeys Jordan Al Qaeda Lebanon Safe Haven Arabian Peninsulas

Author:Michael Scheuer

“Islam is a civilization that is fractured linguistically, ethnically, sectarian-wise, as ours is. What bin Laden has done, though, is to identify a number of issues that are tangible and visceral for Muslims. His indictment list of Western support for Arab tyranny, our ability to keep oil prices too low - at least until recently - our occupation of the Arabian Peninsula.”

Done Ability Numbers Support Issues Wise Civilization Lows Islam Western Oil Lists Tyranny Occupation Tangible Bin Laden Visceral Arabian Indictment Peninsulas Oil Price

Author:Michael Scheuer

“With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology... I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.”

Matter Purpose Views Psychology Poet Opposites Philosopher Point Of View Desert Admiration Arabian

Author:William Seabrook

“The Saudi, Arabian ruling class, for example, have rights because they are performing a service for Western power, ensuring that oil profits go to the West and not to the regional population. The local gendarmes like Israel, Turkey and so on have rights, at least in their ruling groups. Others do not.”

Class Rights Groups Example West Western Population Profit Israel Oil Locals Performing Ruling Turkeys Saudis Arabian

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.”

World Country Christian Common Emotion Islam Rational Secularism Egyptian Demagoguery Arabian

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“The Saudis are so happy. People don't understand, the Saudi Arabian government - kingdom - hates Iran. They're scared to death of Iran. That's Shi'a versus Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Persians. They're not Arabs. So it's a double whammy. There is no love lost, and the Saudis have been petrified over Barack Obama's peace dance and nuclear dealings with the nation of Iran. They are ecstatic to have Donald Trump.”

People Hate Scared Barack Lost Love Ecstatic Happy People Arabian

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“When we come back to fantasy, I think we're actually coming back to the real bedrock of storytelling. Our national or international genre really is fantasy, if you think about the worldwide myths and legends and stories that we all know, whether we're talking about Little Red Riding Hood or the Arabian Nights or Noah's Ark or Hercules. These are stories that cross many cultures in much the same way that dragons cross many cultures.”

Thinking Real Night Culture Fantasy Myth Storytelling Hood Arabian Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood

Author:Robin Hobb

“Syria is the center of the Arab Orient. It cannot live outside its relationship with the Arabian Peninsula, the Gulf countries, Egypt and others. We need economic and investment support from our fellow Arabs the future. Our future is truly tied to the Arab world and the Gulf in particular.”

World Country Support Economic Investment Our Future Syria Arabian

Author:Burhan Ghalioun

“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.”

Heard Surprise Nuclear Campaigns Saudis Surprise Me Nuclear Power Arabian Greenpeace

Author:James Lovelock

“We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.”

Has Beens Military Months Travel Nine Desert Funny Travel Could Have Been Expeditions Nine Months Time Of My Life Arabian

Author:Peter O'Toole

“Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'”

World Sometimes Night Description Banned Ulysses Arabian Arabian Nights

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.”

Girl Careers Casts Chinese Frontiers Aristocracy Arabian Polynesians

Book:Self-portrait

Source: Self-portrait

“Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.”

Mean Art Food Fruit Hospitality Spices Herbs Cookery Arabian Inventiveness Watchfulness Carefulness Thoroughness Herbs And Spices

Author:John Ruskin

“No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.”

People Made Matter Light Mother Cities Sea Flying Desert Hiding Pearls Boston Philadelphia Gleam Nightfall Arabian Frankfurt

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn

“Marvelous wonders don't have to happen of a sudden, the way they do in the Arabian Nights. They can also take a long time, like crystals growing, or minds changing, or leaves turning. The trick is to keep an eye peeled, so they don't slip by unappreciated.”

Way Mind Long Happens Eye Night Wonder Growing Long Time Tricks Slips Marvelous Crystals Arabian Mind Changing Arabian Nights

Author:Ken Kesey

“It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).”

Band Psychedelic Arabian

Author:Patti Smith

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