"Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don't pay so much attention to the words. In loveâ€™s country, language doesn't have its place. Love's mute."

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Shams Tabrizi

#Country Quotes #Pay Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.
“A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.”
“The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)”

Source : Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.123, Penguin
“When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were impostors, as farmers and as fathers, too. In my youthful estimation, Laurence Cook defined both categories. To really believe that others even existed in either category was to break the First Commandment.”
“Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.”
“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at Godâ€™s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.”
“You know you knit too much when ... You take knitting to a wedding, in case there's a little time before the bride comes down the aisle. Double points if you are the bride.”
“I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.”

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