Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly – 80-90%, numbers like that – Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don’t like Iran – Arabs generally don’t like Iran – but they didn’t consider it a threat.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I’d listen to Italian music.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

What I’m denying is that I’m this cutthroat financier.

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is ‚elephant‘.

I was ill, and everyone could see it but me.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

There was a time when people said, ‚Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.‘ Now they just say, ‚Pay him!‘

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The Israelites‘ slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and He sent Jesus Christ to set us free.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

Opportunity makes a thief.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Bad news isn’t wine. It doesn’t improve with age.

Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I am not a crook.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

Hunger is the best pickle.

I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.