Top 100 Khaled's Quotes
#1. As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.
Wael Ghonim
#2. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed,
Khaled Hosseini
#3. That's your business, isn't it, cousin? To make nothing your business. Even your own sons going to war. How I pleaded with you. But you buried your nose in those cursed books and let our sons go like they were a pair of haramis.
Khaled Hosseini
#4. I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing.
DJ Khaled
#5. When I do overcome my fear - what's going to happen is that I'm going to want a plane.
DJ Khaled
#6. For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
Khaled Hosseini
#7. - She studies mathematics at the Sorbonne.
...
- Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
- Yes, but I did it in the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebells with mathematics?
Khaled Hosseini
#8. The writer's silent mind is a period of intermission before orchestrating a symphony of words.
Khaled Talib
#9. Kind words dispel clouds of fear like the moonlight's smile on water.
Khaled Talib
#10. It's like describing music. He cannot bring it to life.
Khaled Hosseini
#11. There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.
Khaled Hosseini
#12. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope.
Khaled Hosseini
#13. Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.
DJ Khaled
#14. -a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.
Khaled Hosseini
#15. It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core, that neither Rasheed nor the Taliban will be able to break. something as hard and unyielding as a block of limestone. Something that, in the end, will be her undoing and Laila's salvation.
Khaled Hosseini
#18. I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.
Khaled Hosseini
#19. I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba's joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn't had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.
Khaled Hosseini
#20. Children s are not the coloring books where you can fill your favorite colors
Khaled Hosseini
#21. I watch because of that look of acceptance in the animal's eyes. Absurdly, I imagine the animal understands. I imagined the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose.
Khaled Hosseini
#22. It is Israel that must recognize Palestine's rights. We cannot believe in empty statements, twiddle our thumbs and watch our children getting killed. Israel must end occupation and aggression, and our actions won't take much longer after that.
Khaled Mashal
#23. A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought in making you.
Khaled Hosseini
#24. I love my privacy too, but at the end of the day, when it comes down to it with my woman, I call her a "special cloth alert." She's a rare breed and I love her and I don't ever want her to change because I think that's the balance of my relationship.
DJ Khaled
#25. Men are easy,' he said, fingers tapping on his mahogany desk. 'A man's plumbing is like his mind: simple, very few surprises. You ladies, on the other hand ... well, God put a lot of thought into making you.
Khaled Hosseini
#26. Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
Khaled Hosseini
#27. Of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah.
Khaled Hosseini
#28. Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.
Khaled Hosseini
#29. But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
Khaled Hosseini
#30. I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.
Khaled Hosseini
#31. Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
Khaled Hosseini
#32. And one more thing ... You will never again refer to him as 'Hazara boy' in my presence. He has a name and it's Sohrab.
Khaled Hosseini
#33. It's simple: Give thanks and use Dove.
DJ Khaled
#34. In many parts of the world, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
Khaled Hosseini
#35. I watched Baba's car pull away from the curb, taking with it the person whose first spoken word had been my name.
Khaled Hosseini
#36. He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
Khaled Hosseini
#37. Once, when I was little, I asked her if she'd cried when my father had fallen to his death.
At the funeral? I mean, the burial?
No, I did not.
Because you weren't sad?
Because it was nobody's business if I was.
Khaled Hosseini
#38. She had this laugh. I swear it's why I married her, Laila, for that laugh! It bulldozed you. You stood no chance against it.
Khaled Hosseini
#39. When you kill a man, you steal a life," Baba said. "You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. Do you see?
Khaled Hosseini
#40. 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
#41. You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is ... God help him.
Khaled Hosseini
#42. And despite the eyeliner, and the lipstick that defines her lips, she has a face now that a passerby's gaze will engage and then bounce from, as it would a street sign or a mailbox number. ...this is what aging is...
Khaled Hosseini
#43. Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end.
Khaled Hosseini
#44. Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.
Khaled Hosseini
#45. Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.
Khaled Hosseini
#46. She thought of Aziza's stutter, and of what Aziza had said earlier about fractures and powerful collisions deep down and how sometimes all we see on the surface is a slight tremor.
Khaled Hosseini
#47. What was it about a season's first snowfall, Mariam wondered, that was so entrancing? Was it the chance to see something as yet unsoiled, untrodden? To catch the fleeting grace of a new season, a lovely beginning, before it was trampled and corrupted?
Khaled Hosseini
#48. It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to
worrying that things aren't going to work out.
Khaled Hosseini
#49. Titanic city" was born.
It's the song, they said.
No, the sea, the luxury, the ship.
It's the sex, they whispered.
Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It's all about Leo.
"Everybody wants Jack," Laila said to Mariam. That's what it is. Everybody wants Jack to rescue them from disaster.
Khaled Hosseini
#50. If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
Khaled Hosseini
#51. I have a shield. It's the most amazing shield ever. I don't see them. I don't feel them. If anything, "Hey come over, let me touch you so I can heal you." You get what I'm saying?
DJ Khaled
#52. We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book.
Khaled Hosseini
#53. Every album I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
DJ Khaled
#54. It's a funny thing ... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.
Khaled Hosseini
#55. I spent a lot of winters in my childhood flying kites with my brother, with my cousins, with friends in the neighborhood. It's what we did in the winter. Schools close down. There was not much to do.
Khaled Hosseini
#56. The U.S. alleges it wants to democratize [the Middle East] whilst it seeks to reverse election results not legally or through polls, but by force, fostering chaos and supporting, financing and arming the corrupt.
Khaled Mashal
#57. It's a real message. Snapchat has put an antenna [on me] and the whole world has got to see me. You either like it or you don't. I've been blessed with people that like it. Again, I'm just being me. The key is to always be you. That's the key.
DJ Khaled
#58. soon after we arrived in the U.S., Baba started grumbling about American flies. He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed. "In this country, even flies are pressed for time," he'd groan.
Khaled Hosseini
#59. He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital.
Khaled Hosseini
#60. I've written a book entitled Islam: the Challenges of Democracy, because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#61. The things that have always drawn me to the craft of writing is character, it's story, it's something that becomes like a pebble in my shoe, a voice that I just can't get rid of, and I've got to see it through.
Khaled Hosseini
#62. With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.
Khaled Hosseini
#63. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Khaled Hosseini
#64. EB: Perhaps it's her way of rebelling. You know a thing or two about rebellion, I think.
NW: Yes, but I did it the proper way. I drank and smoked and took lovers. Who rebels with mathematics?
Khaled Hosseini
#65. I know. I know. But he's always buried in those books or shuffling around the house like he's lost in some dream." "And?" "I wasn't like that." Baba sounded frustrated, almost angry. Rahim Khan laughed. "Children aren't colouring books. You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.
Khaled Hosseini
#66. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed. It won't stretch to make room for you.
Khaled Hosseini
#68. Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
Khaled Hosseini
#69. I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings.
DJ Khaled
#70. 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
#71. I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart
Khaled Hosseini
#72. One of my favorite songs is by Mavado. The song is called "Progress." It's something that I work out to every day. Progress is definitely the answer.
DJ Khaled
#73. In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.
Khaled Hosseini
#74. Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.
Khaled Hosseini
#75. Then Kabul's dogs, who had developed a taste for human meat, would feast. All
Khaled Hosseini
#76. Can I ask what you're reading?" ... She turned the book so the cover faced me. Wuthering Heights. "Have you read it?" She said. I nodded. I could feel the pulsating beat of my heart behind my eyes. "It's a sad story." "Sad stories make good books," She said. "They do.
Khaled Hosseini
#77. That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.
Khaled Hosseini
#78. I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
Khaled Hosseini
#79. The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.
Khaled Hosseini
#81. If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
Khaled Hosseini
#82. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Khaled Hosseini
#83. It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.
Khaled Hosseini
#84. Sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
Khaled Hosseini
#85. All her life, Parwana had made sure to avoid standing in front of a mirror with her sister [...] But in public, every stranger's eye was a mirror. There was no escape
Khaled Hosseini
#86. Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not
Khaled Hosseini
#87. Wahhabism goes and takes elements from the Islamic tradition that are most oppressive of women, and highlights and enlarges them and makes them the whole of Islam. In my view, that's a clear corruption of the Islamic tradition.
Khaled Abou El Fadl
#88. You write because you have an idea in your mind that feels so genuine, so important, so true. And yet, by the time this idea passes through the different filters of your mind, and into your hand, and onto the page or computer screen - it becomes distorted, and it's been diminished.
Khaled Hosseini
#89. She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far ... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.
Khaled Hosseini
#90. I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.
Khaled Mashal
#91. Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.
Khaled Hosseini
#92. Thought, She's your wife. My mother, we buried. But he knew to stifle those words before they came
Khaled Hosseini
#93. It's a half bridge, really, as only four of its original arches remain. It ends midway across the river. Like it reached, tried to reunite with, the other side and fell short.
Khaled Hosseini
#94. It was God's fault, for taunting her as He had. For not granting her what He had granted so many other women. For dangling before her, tantalizingly, what He knew would give her the greatest happiness, then pulling it away.
Khaled Hosseini
#95. Women are like necktie she's smother the man, but she make him stylish
Khaled Naili
#96. Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
Khaled Hosseini
#97. The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
Khaled Hosseini
#98. One is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner working of another person's heart.
Khaled Hosseini
#99. Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not,
Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not.
If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive,
Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.
Khaled Hosseini
#100. Crazy moment!! When you suddenly laughed because you remember something funny and then realised that strangers were lookin at you weirdly (why the hell he's laughin) and immediately you changed your expression to serious.
Khaled Besrour
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