Quratulain Khan Quotes & Sayings

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. — Maria Sharapova

Most of us are degraded in one way or another. — Ethel Lilian Voynich

Memory is weak, imagination strong. — Marty Rubin

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint. — Mahatma Gandhi

Miko: You would stand between me and this evil murderer?

Hinjo: I'll stand between any two murderers I wish, thanks. — Rich Burlew

And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time. — David Blunkett

Of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut — James Russell Lowell

It's basically an act of faith, hoping that a small idea will unspool into a bigger whole. Sometimes, in fact often, it doesn't and it just runs out of steam. The hope for me is that it will snowball. the best way to put it is that I have no particular method or technique per se, other than this: I plan nothing, I outline nothing, I start with an idea or an image or a line of dialogue and see where it leads me. Because I never know what the next page will contain, let alone the end of the book, I am perpetually surprised by the course that my characters take. The writing process is as full of surprises and twists for me as the reading experience is for my readers. I love the spontaneity of writing this way, the possibilities left open, the feeling that I am not constrained or committed to any given path. Every day, I am surprised by something. It may not be the most efficient way of writing, but it has served me well thus far. — Khaled Hosseini

Depression could be considered the exact opposite of the strange obsession with being entirely oneself - of identifying no more - that tool hold of our societies of the early 1960s. — Alain Ehrenberg

Of Diognetus, not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe those things, which are commonly spoken, by such as take upon them to work wonders, and by sorcerers, or prestidigitators, and impostors; concerning the power of charms, and their driving out of demons, or evil spirits; and the like. — Marcus Aurelius