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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. -- Mark Twain
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. -- Rodney Dangerfield
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. -- Henry A. Kissinger
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. -- Golda Meir
More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. -- Fred Saberhagen
Egypt is a sovereign nation. -- William Hague
In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead. -- Stephen Gardiner
There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. -- Silvio Berlusconi
We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. -- Anthony Eden
Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
Egypt is not a country we live in but a country that lives within us. -- Pope Shenouda III
But my friends, these people in Egypt have stood by us in a tough, tough neighborhood. -- Roger Wicker
We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that. -- Mike Johanns
When digging ceases to be a great game and becomes, as in Egypt, merely business, it will be a bad thing. -- Leonard Woolley
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. -- Ray Bradbury
If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror. -- Omar Bongo
Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge. -- Ahmed Zewail
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt. -- Roald Dahl
Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science. -- Magdi Yacoub
Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. -- Ben Nicholson
Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world. -- Hesham Qandil
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. -- Pierre Loti
If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river is very violent and has moved over time. -- Sarah Parcak
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London. -- Alberto Gonzales
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights. -- Ahmed Zewail
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them. -- Zahi Hawass
The president requested me to restore order in the national team. I have been designated to be part of the official delegation to Egypt to help boost the morale of our players. -- Roger Milla
Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality. -- Eric Alterman
The gap between rich and poor is widening dramatically. There's a hangar at the Cairo airport for private jets, billionaires are on the Forbes list, and Egypt's annual per-capita income is two thousand dollars. How can you sustain that? -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we're in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past? -- Sarah Parcak
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. -- Barton Gellman
There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known group of civilizations which arose on both sides of the land bridge between Africa and Eurasia in the fourth millennium B.C. -- James Henry Breasted
Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived. -- Ismail Haniyeh
The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. -- Allyson Schwartz
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. -- Steven Spielberg
The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones. -- Northrop Frye
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. -- James Henry Breasted
Egypt is the gift of the Nile. -- Herodotus
My family lived in Egypt from 1993 to 1996. -- Tea Obreht
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country. -- Hillary Clinton
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. -- James Patterson
Egypt has managed to reclaim the 13-page papyrus manuscript. -- Zahi Hawass
Night came walking through Egypt swishing her black dress. -- Zora Neale Hurston
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt. -- Michelle Paver
The origins of Judeo-Christianity are to be found in Egypt. -- Michael Tsarion
We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism. -- Nawal El Saadawi
I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt! -- Djemal Pasha
Freedom from Egypt should have meant freedom from idols for Israel. -- Jud Wilhite
The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water. -- Anwar Sadat
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble. -- John Gunther
Egypt has a devout population. People go out, they pray, they fast. -- Richard Engel
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly. -- Tea Obreht
Social media is like ancient Egypt: writing things on walls and worshiping cats. -- George Takei
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital. -- Ahmed Zewail
The situation in Egypt is stable. We are ready for tourism and investment. -- Mohammed Morsi
Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat. -- Laurence J. Peter
(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. -- Gustave Flaubert
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult. -- Elliott Abrams
American official policy is that Egypt is an ally of the United States. -- Mitt Romney
The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world. -- Shereen El Feki
London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour. -- Laura Fraser
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. -- D. H. Lawrence
Israel is becoming a fortress. Fences along the borders with Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria. -- Richard Engel
How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? -- Harry S. Truman
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. -- Robert Jenson
Egypt is going to be, potentially, a failed state if we don't help them. -- Michael T. Flynn
I do feel that there are tremendous amount of talent in Egypt, human resources. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future. -- Ahmed Zewail
I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now. -- Ahmed H. Zewail
If we look at Abdel Nasser in Egypt as an Arab leader, he was secular. -- Maajid Nawaz
Darwinism is a pagan religion whose roots go back to the Sumerians and Ancient Egypt. -- Harun Yahya
When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art. -- Robert Wilson
I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages... a chain of them. -- Lindsay Lohan
It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher. -- Amelia B. Edwards
[...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago. -- Michael Tsarion
Egypt has a presidential system. The president runs the state. Who the president is matters profoundly. -- Richard Engel
In Egypt, a civil state means a modern nationalist state that is compatible with Islamist provisions. -- Ali Gomaa
The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). -- Michael Tsarion
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. -- Henry Fuseli
Al Jazeera is demonized by the United States, yet in Egypt my father would be watching it. -- Jehane Noujaim
It's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations, like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. -- George W. Bush
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop. -- Mohammed Morsi
Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. -- Anita Diament
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During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner. -- Elliott Abrams
My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner. -- Maajid Nawaz
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt. -- Michael Tsarion
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure. -- Ahmed Zewail
The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology -- Malcolm X
Egypt is the next domino to fall and, as they say, so goes Egypt so goes the Middle East. -- Robert Baer
I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Egypt is the second-largest recipient over a long period of U.S. military and economic aid. Israel is first. -- Noam Chomsky
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base. -- Ahmed Zewail
Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force. -- Ahmed Zewail
Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city. -- Meir Kahane
The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day. -- Nachman of Breslov
Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all. -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
I've been to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait for brief visits at conferences, and they are very interesting countries. -- Samuel P. Huntington
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel. -- Elliott Abrams
I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government. -- Bill Shorten
Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic. -- Noam Chomsky
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan. -- Camille Paglia
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail. -- Desmond Tutu
In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works. -- Naguib Mahfouz
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse. -- Northrop Frye
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. -- Kelly Ayotte
I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers. -- Maajid Nawaz
Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome. -- John Henrik Clarke
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat. -- Herman Melville
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States. -- Hesham Qandil
It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers. -- Frederic G. Kenyon
You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining. -- Connie Brockway
Images, the visual power of present-day capitalism, like the ritual constructions of ancient Egypt, are refined ways of inhibiting and crushing man. -- Edmundo Desnoes
Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? -- Moses

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