Bulaq Quotes

#1. Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

Ameen Rihani

#2. I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

Bill Bryson

#3. My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

Gloria Estefan

#4. Know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts.

Kristin Hannah

#5. You tried to establish a fact from a lack of evidence. Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry." "Can

Jonathan Renshaw

#6. It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Mark Twain

#7. It is said that blood is thicker than water. It is what joins us, binds us, curses us ...

Barnabas

#8. The great soul of this world is just.

Thomas Carlyle

#9. One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view.
at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother
p177

Nancy E. Turner

#10. I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Colin Powell

#11. I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.

Amy E. Spiegel

#12. Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched tinkling chirps to the jazz, and their call quickens with warm weather, slows again with cool.

Diane Ackerman

#13. As common as unplanned sex. As uncommon as a planned child.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. Emotional abuse is just as bad as physical abuse. Worse! You can heal broken bones; you can't heal a broken mind.

Dia Reeves

#15. The world is finite and yet nothing ever happens more than once exactly the same way.

Brian L. Tucker