Ashraf Ghani Quotes

Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

Ashraf Ghani

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Me
  • Audience
  • Actor

• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Why
  • Words
  • Comedy

• My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Dream
  • Words
  • Dad

• I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Words are all we have.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Words
  • Communication

• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Children
  • May
  • Power

• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Why
  • Words
  • Animals

• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Strength

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Politics

• I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Words

• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Good
  • Words
  • Unique

• I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Want
  • Words
  • Woman

• Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Words
  • Religious

• Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

  

  E. B. White
  • Words
  • Die
  • Dying

• The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

  

  Daniel Hannan
  • Words
  • Bible
  • Gold

• We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

  

  James D. Houston
  • Words

• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Literature

• It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

  

  Jennifer Grey
  • Dance

• I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

  

  Mark Pryor

• Self-reliance is not just words, but deeds.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Words
  • Deeds
  • Self-Reliance