All Quotes

The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

The Egyptian Revolution makes it clear, if anybody was in doubt, that digital technologies are going to play a powerful role in the future of global politics.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian was the reverse of a theorist or mere thinker. He wanted to perceive with his senses how the soul took its way from the dead body into higher realms - he wanted to have this constructed before him.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
‐‐ Golda Meir

The Egyptians have grown in confidence, they've tasted freedom, and there's no way back.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

The eight-year-long Algerian war was to bring down six French prime ministers, open the door to de Gaulle - and come close to destroying him, too. The war was the last of the grand-style colonial struggles, but, perhaps more to the point, it was also the first campaign in which poorly equipped Muslim mujahedin licked one of the top Western armies.
‐‐ Alistair Horne

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exchanges among individuals, this process generates results that might be evaluated positively, produced 'economics,' as an independent academic discipline or science.
‐‐ James M. Buchanan

The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.
‐‐ Corin Tucker

The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
‐‐ Tony Hale

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates.
‐‐ Leon Krier

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.
‐‐ James Hillman

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.
‐‐ Simon Callow

The eldest and biggest of the litter was a dog cub, and when he drew his first breath he was less than five inches long from his nose to where his tail joined his back-bone.
‐‐ Henry Williamson

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
‐‐ Patty Duke

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
‐‐ Dennis Prager

The Election Assistance Commission represents a major, unprecedented commitment from the federal government to sustained freedom and vibrant democracy. I am humbled by the prospect of being one its charter members.
‐‐ DeForest Soaries

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.
‐‐ Roscoe Conkling

The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be.
‐‐ John Ensign

The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other, creating a harmonious and unified new Taiwan through our love and tolerance.
‐‐ Chen Shui-bian

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
‐‐ George Ayittey

The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prime minister will have profound repercussions for Japan and East Asia. Most western commentary during the premiership of Junichiro Koizumi has been concerned with the extent to which Japan has allowed a freer rein to market forces.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The election of the Jewish people is the result of God's falling in love with Abraham and founding a family with him.
‐‐ Meir Soloveichik

The election of the nationalist Chen Shui-bian as president in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 was a nadir in the relationship between Taiwan and the mainland.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.
‐‐ Chen Shui-bian

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening.
‐‐ Jim Talent

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
‐‐ Jim Sensenbrenner

The Electoral College was necessary when communications were poor, literacy was low, and voters lacked information about out-of-state figures, which is clearly no longer the case.
‐‐ Gene Green

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
‐‐ Fergie

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
‐‐ Hans Berger

The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.
‐‐ Louis de Broglie

The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here.
‐‐ Jeremy Rifkin

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
‐‐ Adrian Cronauer

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
‐‐ Barry Ritholtz

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
‐‐ Kate Mulgrew

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.
‐‐ Mary Browne

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

The element of harmony is super important.
‐‐ Pharrell Williams

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.
‐‐ Theodor W. Adorno

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.
‐‐ Steven Weber

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.
‐‐ Andra Day