Gorokhova Quotes & Sayings

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made. — Aaron Patzer

Give yourself permission to change your world and others around you, in a positive way, with love and respect. — Tasha Hoggatt

Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. We are unmoored and disconnected, like these poplar seeds blown into the crevices of the buildings, into the corners of the world. — Elena Gorokhova

I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House. — Mark Goddard

One by one the angels had come to the top of Har Megiddo where I sat, holding her body close to mine after she'd died. I'd fought alongside them in battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. the angels weren't supposed to feel emotions, but they were all weeping. All of them. Their tear stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone. Azrael was the only one of then who came to me, knelt in front of me and took her from my arms. He was the angel of death come to carry his sister home. I din't want to give her up, knowing it would be the last time I ever saw her face. I had died on that wretched hill with her. — Courtney Allison Moulton

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary. — Elena Gorokhova

No one would ever demand compensation to keep people alive. You make us sound like monsters, as if people wouldn't help others unless they got something out of it. — Michael J. Sullivan

What's inside you no one can touch. — Elena Gorokhova

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me. — Khaled Hosseini

At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

If you want to see changes in the spiritual tone of your home and marriage, start with your own life. — Jim George

Look beyond that light,' says my father. 'Look hard and you'll see people filing into the theater. You'll see ushers run up and down the aisles; people talk, programs rustle-you'll hear a murmur. When the lights start to dim, the murmur rises, and then, just a moment before the curtain goes up, the noise stops-everyone in the house holds their breath, everyone knows what is going to happen. This is the moment I've always loved most:the anticipation of magic, the expectation of illusion. — Elena Gorokhova

A bunch of silly men chasing a ball" my mother says "give each one his own ball if they're so desperate to have one — Elena Gorokhova

I still know this place and its people to the marrow of their bones, to their soft, unguarded core, which had once sustained my own life, yet I am as much of an outsider here as I am on the other side of the world, in my adopted country. The truth is that there is no bridge between the two lives - the past and the present - that would conveniently span the memory of loss and the promise of an onward search. There is only a wound, the inner divide of exile. A daughter of an anatomy professor, I should have known that sliced hearts do not become whole, that split souls do not mend. Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. — Elena Gorokhova

I want to be with you, Em. I want to be with you every fucking moment of every fucking day. — Katie Ashley

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. — Elena Gorokhova