Top 100 Laila's Quotes
#1. Because most people are stupid." Laila's words were harsh and her gaze bitter. "They don't want to see or know the truth. And so they willingly believe all the lies they are told.
Katja Michael
#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. 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
#4. Name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.
Laila Lalami
#5. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.
Khaled Hosseini
#6. My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
Laila Ali
#7. 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
#8. Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
Laila Ali
#9. My kids know the importance of being active - and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside - and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
Laila Ali
#10. I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali
#11. This wasn't how their story was supposed to go. This wasn't what she dreamed of. And yet, everything had changed.
Laila Blake
#12. 'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
Laila Robins
#14. I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali
#15. My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
Laila Ali
#16. I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
Laila Ali
#17. I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
Laila Ali
#18. I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.
Laila Ali
#19. I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
Laila Ali
#20. As for you Walter Granden, get out of The Willoughby Palace once and for all, and don't come back ever again.
Sylvie Jones
#21. I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions.
Laila Lalami
#22. Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
Laila Robins
#24. He needed time to adjust to real life, where heroes and villains could not be told apart by their looks or their accents, where there were no last minute reversals of fortune.
Laila Lalami
#25. speak to young men about the weather, meals, clothing, and their relatives. Avoid conversation concerning politics, finance, or religion. Though a gentleman may bring up such topics, and a lady must follow where a gentleman leads, a skilled lady will return the conversation to an appropriate topic.
Laila Ibrahim
#26. I'm sorry, Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Khaled Hosseini
#27. But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
Khaled Hosseini
#28. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope.
Khaled Hosseini
#29. I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.
Laila Ali
#30. I don't play video games. My husband does. He plays sometimes the football, and every once in a while when he gets bored, he'll do a little boxing in there. He gets into the football. You can trade players, and he keeps up with the whole aspect of the game, not just the game. He's a fanatic.
Laila Ali
#31. 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
#32. I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wanted to do it. So, it didn't come from me watching my father. I didn't know the sport existed; therefore, I wasn't really interested in it until I saw it.
Laila Ali
#33. You know what else the average girl who's acting out does?" Duke asks quietly. I glance once at Laila, but it's obvious she can't hear us. "What?" "She starts spending all her time with a boy who's no good for her.
Kasie West
#34. 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
#35. I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.
Diyar Harraz
#36. I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.
Laila Robins
#37. Since I was a child, my father was sick. I've always known him to be that way. That's why I'm proud of him - he has a disease he's obviously struggling with, but he's not letting it stop him from doing what he wants to do.
Laila Ali
#38. I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
Laila Ali
#39. It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.
Laila Robins
#40. Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
Laila Ali
#41. Maybe talking's just not your thing," Emily said gently, suddenly acutely aware of his discomfort. "Maybe it's screaming or kicking things or... splattering paint against a wall or fucking, or I don't know - any of a million things.
Laila Blake
#42. In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth - is in the form of fiction.
Laila Lalami
#43. It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.
Erri De Luca
#44. I'm not one of those women who's like pro women. I'm an individual, and I'm in an individual sport. So I see everyone as individuals, not as male or female.
Laila Ali
#45. I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.
Laila Ali
#46. Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali
#47. That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.
Laila Robins
#48. Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.
Laila Ali
#49. He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise
Laila Lalami
#50. He shrugs. "Doesn't help to waste my time thinking about would've-beens."
Laila whispers, "He says to the girl with a mind full of them.
Kasie West
#51. I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
Laila Ali
#52. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
#53. Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength."
"But we're going to sleep soon," I say.
"I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.
Susane Colasanti
#54. My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.
Laila Ali
#55. She believed that he believed that, but who set out with anything other than good intentions?
Laila Raimes
#56. Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
Laila Lalami
#58. I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?
Diyar Harraz
#59. Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.
Laila Ali
#60. All fighters run. The constant motion prepares you for being in the ring. And running strengthens your legs. Punching power comes from your lower body.
Laila Ali
#61. One day, when I was 33, I shifted. I suddenly saw acting as a higher calling. I understood that my goal was to serve the play. And I realized if an actor can make audiences' hearts resonate or make them question their values - that's an important thing to do!
Laila Robins
#62. People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
Laila Ali
#63. I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.
Laila Ali
#65. Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
Laila Ali
#66. From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.
Laila Lalami
#67. I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.
Kasie West
#68. Of all the contracts I had signed, this was perhaps the only one that my father could never have imagined me signing, for it traded what should never be traded. It delivered me into the unknown and erased my father's name. I could not know that this was just the first of many erasures.
Laila Lalami
#69. Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins
#70. If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
Laila Ali
#71. You heard me, Laila. He broke up with Meri, and now, wants me back. I told him to go fuck himself."
She smiles at me with pride. "That's my bitch." We click our bottles and swig a large mouthful.
Dora Sky
#72. From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila
Khaled Hosseini
#73. I did nine months in 'Mrs. Klein' in New York, then four months on the road. Then I did a movie directed by Philip Haas, who did 'Angels & Insects'. We shot 'The Blood Oranges' in Mexico for six weeks.
Laila Robins
#74. I like to play by my own rules.
Laila Ali
#75. so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In
Laila Lalami
#76. Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
Laila Ali
#77. I was a thirty-eight-year-old man, so I had plenty of time to consider the world through the eyes of someone else: yet that someone had rarely been a woman.
Laila Lalami
#78. I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
Laila Ali
#79. This country was founded with the understanding that we shall be allowed to hold slaves. It was a condition of the formation. That shall not change regardless of the rhetoric coming from the North.
Laila Ibrahim
#80. A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
Laila Robins
#81. This is as true a story as has ever been told: the story of my love for Mattie, and, I suppose, her love for me in return.
Laila Ibrahim
#82. You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more' said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. Addie," Laila says, feigning concern and jumping down next to me. "Did you get hurt? What happened?
Kasie West
#84. When we see too many battlefields, it breaks something inside of a person and they lose the ability to distinguish between cruelty and necessity.
Laila Blake
#85. I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
Laila Ali
#86. To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
Laila Lalami
#87. 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
#88. You're not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
Khaled Hosseini
#89. As far as I concerned, God loves ever'body so God forgives ever'body so ever'body gonna get to heaven.
Laila Ibrahim
#90. I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.
Diyar Harraz
#91. Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.
Khaled Hosseini
#92. I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show.
Laila Ali
#93. Focus on bearing, and beauty will follow. Your looks will not remain with you for life. But your bearing will go with you to the grave.
Laila Ibrahim
#94. It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
Laila Robins
#96. People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
Laila Ali
#97. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#98. I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.
Diyar Harraz
#99. Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.
Laila Ali
#100. But I know a good man make life more sweet. Someone to hold you and love you, someone to share your dreams with, someone kind and thoughtful. A good man's a treasure.
Laila Ibrahim
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