Abbasids Empire Quotes & Sayings

One of the first things to understand was how people knew what language to speak to whom. Where I've lived in the American Southwest, choosing to speak English or Spanish based on how someone looks is risky. If you try English and they don't speak it, you can switch to Spanish if you know it. But if you start with Spanish, you might offend: 'You don't think I speak English?' This can be the case if you're Anglo, even if you speak Spanish very well and just heard the other person speaking Spanish. When I described such an scenario to Indians, they couldn't relate - to them, choosing the wrong language wasn't embarrassing or politically charged. Or so they said. — Michael Erard

With writing, we have second chances. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it. — Betty Dodson

I have no right to make you love me, or to love you. But I do know that love is something that is tested and mended over time.

"I don't know if purely romantic love can last through anything (it is so based on feelings and attraction, both of which are fickle at times), but I think friendship can, and when the romantic love and friendship get blurred together into one it makes 'relationship cement,' I think." - Stay by Jennifer Silverwood

"And then, real love I think comes later. When you really get to know someone and how they think and feel, when you can't imagine if something were to happen to them. When you trust them and want to spend all your time doing nothing with them, when you want to grow old together." - Stay by Jennifer Silverwood — Jennifer Silverwood

Why does my heart pump faster when we're close? How is it you do that to me? — Jus Accardo

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly. — James C. Scott

It was unrealistic to expect to be constantly in the happiest place. In real life, you're lucky just to be always somewhere nearby. — Sarah Dessen

Everything about you makes me crazy," he said, thrusting harder. "I can't think of anything without you at the edges. Everything I see is a reminder of you. My life was empty, yet sufficient a month ago. Now, it's pointless without you. — Bijou Hunter

The picture will have charm when each color is very unlike the one next to it. — Leon Battista Alberti