Khaled Hosseini Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
-
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
-
In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
-
Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
-
I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
-
Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
-
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
-
If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
-
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
-
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
-
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
-
We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
-
I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
-
There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
-
I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just a much faster and more modern way to distribute things, and you have to embrace it.
-
Kevin Costner. I love Kevin Costner. That's all I have to say. I love Kevin Costner.
-
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
-
I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
-
There is a way to be good again.
