"I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways"

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Source : Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black

Ahdaf Soueif

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“Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.”

Source : "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.
“Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.128, William H. Calvin
“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.32, Vintage
“I'm an eternal optimist with a small degree of cynicism.”
“I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.”
“The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.”
“My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.”
“A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.”

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