Fariba Quotes

#1. He's a boy, you see, and, as such, what does he care about reputation? But you? The reputation of a girl, especially one as pretty as you, is a delicate thing, Laila. Like a mynah bird in your hands. Slacken your grip and away it flies.
Fariba to her daughter Laila

Khaled Hosseini

#2. Always be good to all, you'll become the best among all.

Halcyon

#3. If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

Julian Assange

#4. The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#5. If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#6. Which she had spent long and happy hours releasing from their shells, with crazy dedication, because the shelling of pine-kernels is a form of lunacy, you spend more energy getting the damn things out than they give you when you eat.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist

Harry Greb

#8. Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

Olivia Sudjic

#9. THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into night and the heart plunges lower than night.

William Carlos Williams

#10. Happiness is free, Mama says, as sure as the blinkin' stars, the withered arms the trees throw down for our fires, the waterproofin' on our skin, and the tongues of wind curlin' the walnut leaves before slidin' down our ears.

Emily Murdoch

#11. War can become an addiction for its victims because it provides them meaning at the same time that it strips them of decency.

Fariba Nawa

#12. I spit on my glove tips, touch it and can see the sizzle. Not good.

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Margaret Deland