Desolina Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I'd still have Sonia. And Zia. And so many other things that Karim no longer had. I'd still have the Arabian Sea and Sindhri mangoes, and crabbing with Captain Saleem, who had the most popular boat of all because his business card promoted 'Garunteed no cockroach', and, yes, there's still be those bottles of creamy, flavored milk from Rahat Milk Corner and drives to the airport for coffee and warm sand at the beach and Thai soup at Yuan Tung; yes, Burns Road nihari; yes, student biryani; oh, yes, yes, yes, and all that, and all that again. So why complain? Why contemplate words like 'longing'? — Kamila Shamsie

The foundation of the Buddha's teachings lies in compassion, and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion. — Dalai Lama

Amazingly similar in the execution. A bow pulled, an arrow shot. Entirely different in the aftermath. I killed a boy whose name I don't even know. Somewhere his family is weeping for him. His friends call for my blood. Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back ... — Suzanne Collins

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. — B.R. Ambedkar

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper. — Shane Carruth

Money must circulate to bring power. — Robert Greene

I don't know what makes a marriage work. My husband and I don't have it right at all; it's very tough on him. From the outside it looks like it's all about me - I have a glorious career and he doesn't. — Emily Watson

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them. — Twyla Tharp

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself. — Donald Miller

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. — Henri Matisse

Desolina and Tony had attended one-room schoolhouses until the third grade. ... According to Tony, there were hardly enough pencils and sober teachers to go around. [Author's grandparents educational background.] — James Vescovi

None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic. — James Vescovi