I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through ot...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do ventur...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating pe...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it dimini...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of ou...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better car...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone's rights. It's where we're r...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a w...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things co...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and ...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to expres...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we sh...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that rea...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one th...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have cont...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, the...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at ...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a s...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN The protocol things, the officialdom, are part of my work. But it doesn't take more than 20 perc...
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN It's better for people to be likeable than popular.
QUEEN RANIA Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not mak...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emer...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety an...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, i...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condit...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me t...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at time...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf W...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I have said this in the past and I will continue to repeat it as long as I live: Whoever tries to hu...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have see...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live i...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but betwe...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I'm proud of what I've done in Jordan, but the region itself is sitting on a time bomb.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN No one provokes me with impunity.
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the so...
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII No more tears now; I will think about revenge.
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS I say this explicitly, that it is impossible for me to marry. That is the way it is for me. My tempe...
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of be...
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN I love the storm and fear the calm.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIE OF ROMANIA Self-dependence is self-confidence.
RANIA BOUCHAHINE People are like pool balls. Not all are pocketed by a hard shot; sometimes you've got to compromise ...
RANIA BOUCHAHINE Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil i...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the s...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family h...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most ur...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. Bu...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent live...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I like to look at the glass half full.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for exa...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its o...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in wh...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN It is always dangerous to underestimate anybody.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I'm not the type of person that is forced.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Pales...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you d...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek d...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years tim...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challen...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't,...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be a...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad mid...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted int...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defen...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficu...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Is...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilizat...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnersh...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made pub...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're go...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Don't take 'no' for an answer.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in J...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. An...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Political development should start at the grassroots.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the large...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Our response has been, 'Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestin...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN You're always going to have terrorism.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying ...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist pl...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I'm easily entertained.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Nobody scares me.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that offi...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Mid...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN You're always going to have extremists in every religion.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontati...
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself...
QUEEN LATIFAH Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
QUEEN LATIFAH We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend...
QUEEN LATIFAH It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse ...
QUEEN VICTORIA An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA Everybody grows but me.
QUEEN VICTORIA I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a ver...
QUEEN VICTORIA A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to dis...
QUEEN LATIFAH As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to...
QUEEN LATIFAH Always follow your own path.
QUEEN LATIFAH The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just int...
QUEEN LATIFAH You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I know a lot of people who really aren't beautiful because their attitudes are very nasty... Whe...
QUEEN LATIFAH If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God cr...
QUEEN LATIFAH Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun.
QUEEN LATIFAH Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
QUEEN VICTORIA When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife...
QUEEN VICTORIA If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger ...
QUEEN LATIFAH New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Ja...
QUEEN LATIFAH I have my dad's shape. No booty.
QUEEN LATIFAH I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised wh...
QUEEN LATIFAH The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wi...
QUEEN VICTORIA He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very ...
QUEEN VICTORIA I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or...
QUEEN VICTORIA It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
QUEEN CHRISTINA None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in th...
QUEEN VICTORIA Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
QUEEN MARIA Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of fort...
QUEEN VICTORIA These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
QUEEN VICTORIA I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and do...
QUEEN VICTORIA Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a publ...
ELLERY QUEEN We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the...
QUEEN VICTORIA I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a littl...
QUEEN VICTORIA Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
QUEEN VICTORIA When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wif...
QUEEN VICTORIA His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is ...
QUEEN VICTORIA I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...
QUEEN VICTORIA Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
QUEEN VICTORIA We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the...
QUEEN VICTORIA Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
QUEEN VICTORIA I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, ...
QUEEN LATIFAH Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks ...
QUEEN LATIFAH I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out to...
QUEEN LATIFAH When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife ...
QUEEN VICTORIA Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
QUEEN LATIFAH I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
QUEEN VICTORIA I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfec...
QUEEN LATIFAH There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w...
QUEEN LATIFAH