Quotes by Emirati Authors - Page 2

Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.
Aysha Taryam
To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or build a special bond, patience is the key to every stall's door.
Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
The future does not wait for hesitant people. The more we achieve, the more we realise how much more we can achieve.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
We may not live for hundreds of years, but the products of our creativity can leave a legacy long after we are gone.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Everybody starts small. We all begin life as a single cell. Every business starts as one person with an idea. How fast you go, how far you get, is in your hands. The bigger your vision, the bigger your achievement will be. Will you stumble on the way? Perhaps, but we cannot let fear keep us small. We have to be brave to be big.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
Clyde DeSouza
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism, won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
Clyde DeSouza
No... we're not playing God. We're only attempting to set things right.
Clyde DeSouza
Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.
Clyde DeSouza
Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.
Aysha Taryam
For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.
Aysha Taryam
Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.
Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
Impressionable young students must be given true examples of the Arab woman through her own words. When I say students I do not mean young girls alone for in order to raise a generation that truly believes in gender equality it is the young boys that have to listen first, those boys who will grow up to have female rivals at every stage of their professional careers. In order to foster greater respect for their future interactions as equals at par with each other in every way we must introduce them both to those female thinkers, those female warriors who have fought to create a distinct voice, that voice that emanates from an agony, a sense of injustice and suffocation from years of silence, that no male thinker, no matter how great, can mimic.
Aysha Taryam
Our Arab mothers and sisters are suffering from injustices like domestic violence, sexual harassment, child marriages and honour killings, some are still fighting for their right to drive or travel without male custody therefore our powerful Arab media was not only expected to broadcast this particular one of a kind Women’s march it should have held panels to dissect the issues being brought forth in order for the Arab world to better understand that gender equality is not an idea that one believes in, it is a planned movement that requires an enormous effort on the part of both men and women to reach.
Aysha Taryam
The Women’s March had restored my faith as I am sure it has introduced the young generation to the new wave of feminism. A feminist movement that was made up of both sexes and all ages and creeds, one that did away with the arguments and stood arm in arm for a greater cause, a cause which the Arab media did not wish to project.
Aysha Taryam
The word feminism has become synonymous with man-hating when in fact it has more to do with women than men.
Aysha Taryam
Every woman, hell, every man should be a feminist, that is the only way to render this word obsolete.
Aysha Taryam
Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous.
Aysha Taryam
Does running water stop when it reaches a rock? Of course not. It turns either left or right, and continues its way. Likewise, a positive person is confident that no challenge will stand in the way of achieving his or her goal.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself of ‘negative’ feelings.
Aysha Taryam
Viciousness is part of the world we live in, some of us choose to ignore it with the rationalisation of wanting only positivity to flow our way. How selfish we have become! That the pain of others has become a hindrance to the fulfilment of our positive selves.
Aysha Taryam
The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan’s own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.
Aysha Taryam
The first summer that we spent together,we did so many obscene things to each other, thatby the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?
Danabelle Gutierrez
My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.
Danabelle Gutierrez
Wealth is not money. Wealth lies in men. This is where true power lies, the power we value. This is what has convinced us to direct all our resources to building the individual, and to using the wealth which God has provided us in the service of the nation.
Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
Freedom can be a state of mind, a path built independently, and with freedom comes responsibility.
Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum
History is not always pessimistic for if World War II Europe has taught us anything it is that the rebuilding of cities is possible and the mending of a nation’s spirit can be achieved.
Aysha Taryam
His request to those listening was to start every day knowing that each minute lost is one that they will never get back and use that thought to drive them forward. This is what resonates most with this writer about our beloved Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, he is a force of positive energy that the world is in dire need of. Therefore, when people ponder about what it is that makes the government of the United Arab Emirates different one can safely reach the conclusion that, Mohammed Bin Rashid is the difference.
Aysha Taryam
When people ask me what it is that I want to achieve in life, I always tell them that I want to be able to make positive change in spite of all the issues that the world faces today.
Omar Al Busaidy
The cost of war is like an immeasurable tremor that knows no borders, its shockwaves reverberating across the world resulting in universal suffering.
Aysha Taryam
In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.
Aysha Taryam
We all think we understand love yet we fail to see that no two loves are the same
Aysha Taryam
What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?
Clyde DeSouza
Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny
Aysha Taryam
Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.
Aysha Taryam
In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.
Aysha Taryam
The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.
Aysha Taryam