"Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.“

-King Abdullah II

posted in fear

King Abdullah II quote about fear: "Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off."

Other Quotes

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through."

-King Abdullah II

wisdomView Quote

"I don't think the Middle East could afford another war."

-King Abdullah II

"When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins."

-King Abdullah II

"I think the success of democracy is not really police security it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends."

-King Abdullah II

successView Quote

"I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism."

-King Abdullah II

societyView Quote

"You're always going to have extremists in every religion."

-King Abdullah II

religionView Quote

Same Category

More quotes in this category

"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."

-Arianna Huffington

"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."

-Candace Bushnell

"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."

-Nicholas Hoult

"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."

-Camille Claudel

"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."

-John B. S. Haldane

"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."

-Lionel Richie