"Gabriel Levin's book is a journey through time and through entrenched animosities of the Middle East. What's astonishing and refreshing is his ability to combine the reporter's perspective with a deep knowledge of poetry, including pre-Islamic Arab poems. A brilliant poet is at work here-a poet in the rugged landscape of conflict and pain."

-- Adam Zagajewski

#Pain Quotes #Book Quotes #Islamic Quotes

“Music? Music is life! Itâ€™s physical emotion - you can touch it! Itâ€™s neon ecto-energy sucked out of spirits and switched into sound waves for your ears to swallow. Are you telling me, what, that itâ€™s boring? You donâ€™t have time for it?”
“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”

Source : Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.45, Penguin
“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Source : "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.
“So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.”
“I am not a driver, I am a racer.”
“The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.”
“I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!”
“Carolyn Maloney identifies with the possibility of being raped, that's why she hung in there for the Debbie Smith Bill. So it - it's essential that in New York, if we can't get a prominent woman in New York, where can we? I mean there's so many states that have never even had a woman senator. We're still on our first this and our first that.”

Source : Source: www.blogher.com

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