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Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold.


Naguib Mahfouz

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He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Madness is the acme of intelligence.
نجيب محفوظ April. Month of dust and lies.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Better a heart of gold and an empty pocket than an empty heart and a pocket of gold.
RAIN BOJANGLES an absolute heart of gold.
DAVID RIDGE The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that s...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothin...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between rep...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beauti...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our herit...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people a...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the d...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated unders...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Without literature my life would be miserable.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ If we reject science, we reject the common man.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I have condemned Khomeini's fatwa to kill Salman Rushdie as a breach of international relations and ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When will the state of the country be sound?... When its people believe that the end result of cowar...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his que...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part o...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been trans...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that ...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big prob...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الدنيا من غير طلعة محياها لا تساوي ذره من رماد
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is no...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Happy is he who can give himself up.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our fi...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ إن بلادنا في حاجة إلى جرعات قوية من قلة الأدب حيال المل�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Home is not where you are born;
home is where all your attempts
to escape cease
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ ...love is like health. It is taken lightly when present and cherished when it departs.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ الحــب : لعله جنون أو مرض، ولكنه على أي حال يمثل السعادة...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Laugh till you're exhausted.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ -إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغ�...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ سألت الشيخ عبد ربه التائه.
- متى يصلح حال البلد؟
ف...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY Unfortunately there's this gold rush mentality to bring these products to market,
JEFF CHESTER He had a heart of gold.
DAVID FROISETH That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a g...
NICOLA ADAMS Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu...
DON KING Michael, to me, he was an assassin. He was one of those guys that prepared himself extremely well an...
DAVID ROBINSON An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold
CHINESE PROVERBS Many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the early part of the last century deposited mone...
BRIAN KABATECK Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.
HOWARD BLUM His bark is worse than his bite. He's got a gruff exterior but underneath is a heart of gold.
BILL GROSS The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off...
CAM NEWTON An offer to fight Muhammad Ali came after Stevenson won his second Olympic gold in Montreal in 1976....
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
MARGUERITE GARDINER For her heart was cold to all but gold,And the rich came not to woo --But honored well are charms to...
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS It was miserably rough. That horse has got a heart of gold. It got its second wind and started trust...
DENNIS SHIPLEY Judy was a vibrant, outgoing compassionate person with a heart of gold.
JANET PEARSON This is definitely an embarrassment for the Turkish Government
JANE ARRAF Our Northern California congressional district has been ground zero for many tragic events from an o...
WALLY HERGER I'm the kind of girl you hear storrys Abort. If could I would save everyone. People say I have a hea...
LITTLE DEVIL You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his quest...
NAGUIB I know if he'd won a gold medal in 2002, things might have been different. But there's a sense of un...
ANDY CARROLL He had a heart of gold. He always wanted to help. He was an amazing man. I can't accept the fact he'...
MELISSA GLICK As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.
BILLY PORTER Don't ever underestimate my kindness for weakness. I have a heart of gold, but the strength of titan...
STEPHANIE ADAMS I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even ...
JULIAN BAGGINI We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
HERNAN CORTES We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
HERNANDO CORTEZ An angel is the one who claims a devil but has a heart of an angel rather than the opposite... - Coc...
COCOY MCCOY I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in...
JOSEPH ADDISON The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cypru...
ALI BABACAN Somewhere over the rainbow is my heart of gold, leprechauns pick at it but only a pure soul will it ...
SEAN CROSBY A woman walking with a broken heart is a very strong woman, but also a very dangerous one.
CARMELA CORTES In a world of music where success is defined by gold or platinum, our friend Phil Walden was best de...
TOM JOHNSON He has a hart of gold
DUTCH PROVERB I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish ...
ELIF SAFAK But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important m...
OLGA KORBUT I'd rather have a heart of gold
Than all the treasure of the world.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Muhammad does not believe in violence, Muhammad does not believe in punishment. He is the role model...
HUSSAM AYLOUSH By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence...
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