Dreams Quote by Anthony Shadid

“Starbucks itself is a product of diverse global cultures: “Starbuck’s customers, whether in Zurich or Beirut, are drinking an American version of an Italian…

— Patricia J. Campbell

“Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace.”

— Sandra Chami Kassis

“Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...”

— Hussein S. Hariri

“Isn’t it funny that only twenty years ago, they were down there cowering in terror that we trigger-happy, decadent, capitalist Americans would go nuclear…

— Magnus Flyte

“Too much coffee has been spilled in the name of war. Let us love and savor every drop.”

— Jarod Kintz

“If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation…

— Sayed Hassan Nasrallah

We woke up one day, and all the sudden Starbucks was in the middle of this political crossfire between the people who want to…

— Howard Schultz

“Beirut’s enduring lesson for me was how thin is the veneer of civilization, how easily the ties that bind can unravel, how quickly a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“I should be in Beirut, I thought, working as a journalist, but another part of me was so wary of that old life of…

— Anthony Shadid

I remember, right after Hezbollah launched its rocket attacks on Israel, I said: This is a clarifying moment; this is a chance for the…

— George W. Bush

When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the…

— Robert Fisk

“The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.”

— Charles Bracelen Flood