Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Khaled Hosseini

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• I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Think
  • Evil

• If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • America
  • Change
  • Congress

• I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • Party
  • Gossip

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Silence
  • Mystery
  • Diffidence

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Desire

• A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• That's just a symbol of how you should deal with a breakup. You can cry for a little bit, eat some ice cream, but I think, after that, it's like, get up, listen to some powerful music and do something that makes you happy, be productive.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Up
  • Music
  • Happy

• I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Family

• The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Now

• Once the war of words begins, truth is the casualty.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Truth
  • War
  • Words

• The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • May
  • Success
  • Vision

• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • School
  • Football
  • Study

• I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Song
  • Sun

• As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Point

• Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Information
  • Negative

• A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Nature
  • Father

• I'm a terrible long-term planner.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Long

• Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipeWhen tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers, wooing the caressMore dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by farThy naked beauties-give me a cigar!

  

  Lord Byron
  • True

• Although there were many who did the dirty on him in the envious world of letters, Stephen

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • Dirty

• I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

  

  Chris Bauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Country
  • War

• By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • People
  • Happy

• Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

  

  Khaled Hosseini