the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers
Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.
But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion - 1,200, 1,500 soldiers - arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
But let her remember, that it is in Britain alone, that laws are equally favourable to liberty and humanity; that it is in Britain the sacred rights of nature have received their most awful ratification.
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
