Culture Quote by Davis Bunn Download Open image ““For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.”” — Davis Bunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture History Perspective Time
“What makes the Arabs suitable candidates for democracy is their heritage as human beings, not their specific cultural or historical antecedents.” — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.” — McKay Copy Share Image
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what… — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
“The idea of a licentious West that many Arabs hold today closely mirrors the view that Europeans had of the Middle East a couple… — Brian Whitaker Copy Share Image
“In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“I am as confident that all the elements needed in a distinguished Arab development process are available, as I am about the ability of… — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Copy Share Image
“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing,… — Ted Chiang Copy Share Image
“Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek… — Jose Ingenieros Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“It seems clear that the Arab East still sees the West as a natural enemy. Against that enemy, any hostile action-be it political, military,… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“A steel door clapped open as a guard stepped from the bulletproof viewing station across the hall. "Adams!" "That you?" "I told you, I… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“Your story should open as a door to the reader, where the action has already begun and they have to run to keep up.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“The afternoon's glory was tainted by the voice on the other end. "I was so very sorry not to have the pleasure of meeting… — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
“I was thinking..." "We know," Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker” — Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image
