Aminah Assilmi Quotes & Sayings

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. — Sarah Vowell

Doubtful of what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. — Barack Obama

Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back. — Steve Scalise

Love is supposed to be scary. If it was easy, everyone would do it. — Susan Mallery

Why is it harder to leave a loveless marriage than a loving one? Because a loveless marriage is born of desperation, while a loving one is born of choice. . . — Anonymous

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. — Robert H. Schuller

I think what we fear is the shadow of what we love — Diana Wilder

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,
because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep. — Ralph Waldo Emerson