"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."

People, Language

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take."

Exlpore more People quotes

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Susan C. Young, American Author

People, Love, Happiness, Truth, Power

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

People, Kindness, Remember, Touch

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

People, First

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

People, Company

"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

People, Feeling, Opera

"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

People, Belief, Blind

"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

People, Wants, Dreams, Action

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

People, Trouble

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

Bob Woodward, American Journalist

People, Press, Washington

Explore more quotes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."

Time,

"Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private."

Religion, Politics, Heart

"Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world."

Poetry, Vision, Words, World

"For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history."

History, Life, Poetry, Being

"In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away."

Time,

"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."

Civilization,

"What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."

War, End, World, Worldwar

"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."

Courage, Intellectuals, Opposition, Voice

"New ideas should confront old ideas. We must refer to the example of Europe. People have fought to make Europe what it is today. Freedom is not something that is served up on a plate."

People, Ideas, Europe, Example

"The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge."

Knowledge, Desire, World