"How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night's dark sky become blue?"

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Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

Susan Abulhawa

#Love Quotes #Dark Quotes #Night Quotes

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
“That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.”

Source : Alan Norman Bold (1983). “In this corner: selected poems, 1963-1983”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions.”

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.
“I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that...for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague.”
“there are many ways to fail. Some reject success. And others do not recognize it when success comes.”
“I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.”
“Funk is the unending cycle of life,”
“Traveling fast over complex technical terrain requires a high level of technical ability and the endurance to support it. These two quite divergent capabilities need to be developed over years of practice. Omitting either limits your potential.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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