A Thousand Splendid Quotes

#1. I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Khaled Hosseini

#2. What some people don't understand about new clothes is it's not about the clothes. It's the promise of how happy you'll be when you wear them, the wonderful things you'll be doing in them, how people will look at you and say, yes, there's a woman who really likes herself.

Kristan Higgins

#3. What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#4. We have it in ourselves to do what we are meant to do.

Shellie Palmer

#5. Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Charles Phillips

#6. One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Queen Elizabeth II

#8. No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Georges Bernanos

#9. I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring.

Wentworth Miller