Haled Hoseini Quotes & Sayings

Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains. — Wallace Stegner

I don't like the phrase having it all. It implies we're being greedy, like "have a second piece of pie." — Kirsten Gillibrand

You don't need speech or hearing to feel [friendship] — Mitch Albom

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth. — Ben Horowitz

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. — Christian D. Larson

Love at first sight is not complicated. In our dreams we build a woman, we give her life from our own life, and then we have to wait. Through trial and error we try to find that nameless ghost that's haunting our most lonely of nights. And I felt as if I had found what I was looking for. Finally, my ghost had a name and a face. — Cristian Mihai

And what an honour to have been chosen. How silly to have been so frightened! Naturally the great leaders of the State would not allow harm to come to an innocent citizen who worked hard and had no black marks on her zapiska. Suddenly she felt immensely grateful to the father-figure that was the State, and proud that she would now have a chance to repay some of her debt. Even the Klebb woman wasn't really so bad after all. — Ian Fleming

I don't watch a lot of television. — Cameron Mackintosh

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example. — Robert Trout

The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak. — Flannery O'Connor

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. — Jean Cocteau

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs? — Coolio

Before Lord Anomander Rake the crowd in the street shrank back, all thoughts of festivity swept away. — Steven Erikson

Y'know, I kind of prefer it when the dead stay dead.'
'Pot. Kettle. Black,' Owen said.
'Yeah,' agreed Jack with a shrug. 'The difference is, I do it with style. — Trevor Baxendale

While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking. — Dacia Maraini