Abbasids Quotes & Sayings

We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided. — Shimon Peres

I want to be whole. More than half-healed. More than half-loved.

I was never given a lovely life. And I've had far too much taken from me, the most poignant being my innocence, my joy, and my trust... I want them all back. — Cheri Bauer

My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at the head of the table. I think that's a mistake, in obvious opposition to the ideal of teaching which permits a student to be someone other than the teacher ... The successful teacher has to make each of the students a different product rather than the same. — Nicholas Delbanco

I was minding my own business when something says to me, "you ought to blow trumpet." I have just been trying ever since. — Miles Davis

We must fight to carry out his radical and bold vision for America. — Bernie Sanders

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden. — Robert Breault

I mean, whatever's supposed to happen is gonna happen. — Audrina Patridge

The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise. — Don Bradley

One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout its golden age, inextricably linked to religion. Clearly, the scientific revolution of the Abbasids would not have taken place if it were not for Islam, incontrast to the spread of Christianity over the preceding centuries, which had nothink like the same effect in stimulation and encouraging original scientific thinking. — Jim Al-Khalili

Made this card especially for you
because today's a special day,
I wanted it to be wonderful
I wanted it to say,
hope everything you wish for,
comes true on this your birthday. — Susan Smith

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. — H. P. Blavatsky