Attallah Zeidan quote: "All the talk about civil war is meaningless. We live in a homogenous society despite everything that's being said and done. When I take a seat in the service taxi that brings me here from home every morning, do I turn to the guy seated next to me and ask him, 'are you Sunni or Shiite?' I never asked my wife before I married her whether she was Sunni or Shiite."

If it's a war between Sunni and Shiite, this war might be extended from Lebanon to Afghanistan .
DIAA RASHWAN

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a ...
RICHARD ENGEL

If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing......
CONOR OBERST

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by bannin...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal syst...
WILLIAM ODOM

Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and...
DAVID IGNATIUS

there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the...
DAISY WHITNEY

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat...
JULIAN FELLOWES

One of the generals, I think, said yesterday that over 90 percent of the attacks that occurred in th...
JAMES WOOLSEY

Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was ...
SARAH DESSEN

I knew they were gonna bring somebody in, whether it be a draft pick or a free agent. But in my mind...
DREW BREES

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenp...
JAMES SPADER

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn'...
PAUL MERTON

These Sunni Arabs in places like al Anbar province in Iraq, where I served back in 2007, if they see...
RON DESANTIS

When I got married, it was pretty frustrating for my wife. I would move my legs and kick and turn an...
JACK BARR

The constitution is not only a disaster for a lot of the people who share the secular democratic per...
DAVID MACK

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a...
MIKE TYSON

I tried!” She screamed, her eyes filled with raw emotion. All Sarah could do is stand there, speec...
ZOE SANTANA

My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could c...
BRAD FELD

love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w...
MAYA ANGELOU

Behold your new mistress, my wife," he pronounced, "and know that when she
bids you, I have bid...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT

When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn...
PETER HIGGS

My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
H. R. MCMASTER

At the celebration at the Shiite shrine, a cleric gave a scathing speech in the mosque's courtyard. ...
CORRESPONDENT CHARLES LEVINSON

Just imagine if a Shiite couple are seeking a divorce. She can get a divorce under the civil code an...
DAVID MACK

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but th...
RICHELLE MEAD

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a ...
MICHAEL YORK

She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my ow...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn&...
PAUL MERTON

I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ...
CHANITA OLDS

During the telecast ... I was asked a question in the top five, by Tony Danza, about my platform iss...
KATIE HARMAN

There was a guy telling his friend that he and his wife had a serious argument the night before. "Bu...
UNKNOWN

What was she like?"
I tell the truth.
"She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

When I was a girl, civil war in Sudan forced me to flee my home town of Wau.
ALEK WEK

For the longest time my company is what got me up in the morning. It was what motivated me every sec...
SAMANTHA YOUNG

She was the most loving person. She would always give me a back massage or talk to me about anything...
CRAIG ROTHWELL

This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all
the run...
KRESLEY COLE

All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going ...
JEREMY SISTO

And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell...
BIBLE

An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she requested no male pallbearers. In her ha...
UNKNOWN

I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggl...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up ac...
SALMAN RUSHDIE

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinne...
DONNA RICE

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusation...
AMY TAN

Nothing they say or do can ever change the man you are,” Trinity continued. “A man I love with a...
C.A. HARMS

Julita was being spinned like a top by a drop-dead-gorgeous Dominicano. Later she told us that he’...
ISABEL LOPEZ

I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example...
LARRY FITZGERALD

Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
MANON CARRIE

As a married couple you kinda take for granted the little moments. Just being able to come home and ...
ANNETTE SCARLETT

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in...
MARY BALOGH

I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just ca...
DALLAS ROBERTS

Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I...
BEVERLY L. ANDERSON

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, b...
THOMAS MERTON

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a...
AL PACINO

Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a f...
DAVID MACK

[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS

Hey". Meghan's fingers on my arm nearly made me jump out of my skin. She smiled up at me, though her...
JULIE KAGAWA

Somehow, I'm in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my...
DULQUER SALMAAN

Despite everything, every piece of Alaska sang to me. I remembered every curve in the trails, every ...
SUMMER LANE

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue b...
FANNIE FLAGG

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I wo...
HOWARD IKEMOTO

I held her in my arms last night," he said quietly. "And when I felt her every response, I thought, ...
JOEY W. HILL

In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about ...
PASTOR MALDONADO

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ...
NINA LACOUR

Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN

My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid w...
KUMAIL NANJIANI

I said, I want to tell you something.
She said, you can tell me tomorrow.
I had never told...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me...
ALEX CAMPBELL

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to ma...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I don't care if she ever makes a basket that can hold grain, but I want her to be here with me. I wa...
SHAY SAVAGE

Half of the days in 2014, I had to confine my daughter to my home like a prisoner because the air qu...
CHAI JING

When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Kasha didn't say a word as we ate. She sat with her back to us, staring at a mountain range far in t...
D.J. MACHALE

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except pe...
DOUGLAS SIRK

I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
SARAH DESSEN

The older lady harrumphed. "I warned you, daughter. This scoundrel Hades is no good. You could've ma...
RICK RIORDAN

Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ...
JOHN ABBOTT

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT

How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans...
JOHN ABBOTT

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT

Her eyes widen and she shoves me back and then there's a space between us, enough to paralyze me wit...
COURTNEY SUMMERS

I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ...
ROBERT BLAKE

I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out...
PATTI STANGER

Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a...
GEORGE MCGOVERN

I had a fifth-grade education when I decided to leave home, ... My mother gave me $9, and I took it ...
LARRY MARSHALL

She was in a bit of a state and needed to know that I was OK. She managed to get a message to me say...
PETE DOHERTY

I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ......
WILLIAM WATSON

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or ...
JAMES JOYCE

She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so...
JOHN GREEN

When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,...
CICELY TYSON

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my w...
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