#am

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#adopt #believe #i #plan #ready

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. ↗

— King Hussein

#dream #end #i #knew #never

I am totally against the idea that a Muslim woman should not have the same opportunities as a Muslim man to learn, to open up, to work, help shape the future. To close Islam down to a sexist approach is totally intolerable and ridiculous. It's not Islam. ↗

— King Hussein I

#am #approach #close #down #future

Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue. ↗

— King Hussein I

#between #clear #dialogue #difference #heart

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#choices #family #priorities #work #family

I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain. ↗

— King Hussein I

#chain #continuous #ever #expected #founder

All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this man has tried, and his family tried. This is all there is to seek in this world. ↗

— King Hussein I

#day #family #gone #his #hope

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. ↗

— King Hussein I

#birthplace #children #continue #dawn #descendants

Fundamentalism as it is called is not confined to the Muslim world. It is something that we have seen in different parts of the world. Let us hope that a dialogue between the followers of the three great monotheistic religions could help in putting an end to this. ↗

— King Hussein I

#called #confined #could #dialogue #different

I will never work merely to make a reputation for myself, to be popular for appearances rather than for what I am. My task is to lead my country through service. ↗

— King Hussein I

#appearances #country #i #i am #lead