Pashtun Afghan Quotes & Sayings

They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. — Alessandro Baricco

Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods. — Jean Ziegler

Be not discourage when others are unable to see the heights of your vision, God will placed you on His shoulders long before they are hoisting you on theirs. — Carl Henegan

I've seen all I need to. I'm going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle. — Richelle Mead

When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet. — Beth Ditto

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. — Zebulon Pike

Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates. — David Carson

Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend. — Robert Charles Wilson

My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on. — John F. Kennedy

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all. — Sabrina Jeffries

Nothing can replace the feel of the paper against your fingers, the ink soaked up by paper, the sensation of turning a page with the wind rustling your hair, or the deliberate and intricate presentation of images and text that you can only get in the real world, on real pages. And few things can be as torturous as sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end. — CrimethInc.

Don't fight forces, use them. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The Taliban began as a Pashtun movement in Afghanistan, then spread into Pakistan. Now the Pakistani Taliban have earned the reputation as the most cruel in the Afghan villages I visited. In Afghanistan, they are away from their own homes and villages and seem to carry out their atrocities more readily. They are trained to be terrorists in the most fundamental sense of the word: to become legendary for the creativity of the horrors they're able to commit. — Eric Blehm

That others know: science. That others choose: politics. — James Richardson