Leila's Quotes

#1. What can I say, I have a thing for guys in period dress, okay? That's just who I am. - Author: Leila Sales

#2. I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm. - Author: Leila Josefowicz

#3. I love adventure. When I'm not working or on the road, you can find me in my favorite spots around the Mission neighborhood of S.F., kitesurfing in the Bay or dancing. - Author: Leila Janah

#4. I'm learning not to hope for what I can't control ... - Author: Leila Meacham

#5. I used to think my job as a CEO meant managing metrics and meeting goals, but I've realised now that's it's about managing my board and employees. - Author: Leila Janah

#6. I'm the founder and CEO of Sama Group, a family of social enterprises - Samasource, Samahope and SamaUSA - that are working to alleviate poverty by connecting the global community to opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and here in the U.S. - Author: Leila Janah

#7. True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision. - Author: Leila Janah

#8. Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S. - Author: Leila Janah

#9. When I was growing up, we spoke Egyptian, we ate Egyptian food, we had other Egyptian friends. It was my father's preference. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#10. Don't be special. That's what I would say to my younger self if I could pinpoint the moment when I went astray. But there was no one moment. I was always astray - Author: Leila Sales

#11. If Dan had ever wanted anything more, then I had killed that by ignoring him at Abbott's. That had been my one chance to confront him not as warring reenactors, but as two people, a girl and a boy, and I had killed it. I am the Charles Manson of relationships. - Author: Leila Sales

#12. I'm concerned that Islam has not just been politicised but that it's becoming an identity. This is like turning religion into a football match; it's a distraction from the real thing. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#13. Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said. - Author: Leila Sales

#14. Because if there's one thing we know about lesbians, it's that none of them wear bras. - Author: Leila Sales

#15. The Mercy of Allah is an Ocean, Our sins are a lump of clay clenched between the beak of a pigeon. The pigeon is perched on the branch of a tree at the edge of that ocean.It only has to open it's beak - Author: Leila Aboulela

#16. But that's the thing: when you swear to take someone's side no matter what, sometimes you have to go to war for them. - Author: Leila Sales

#17. Most philanthropists want to be effective altruists. But the problem isn't intention: it's measurement. Unlike financial investing, which has reporting standards, audit processes, and educational requirements, social investing is notoriously tricky to evaluate. - Author: Leila Janah

#18. I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. - Author: Leila Rasheed

#19. I believe that a person's taste in music tells you a lot about them. In some cases, it tells you everything you need to know. - Author: Leila Sales

#20. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan. - Author: Leila Sales

#21. Small miracles happen every day, some people just don't notice them. - Author: Leila Summers

#22. All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#23. Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers. - Author: Leila Sales

#24. Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about. - Author: Leila Sales

#25. But I also felt like an eggshell that had gotten a tiny crack. You can't repair something like that. All you can do is hope that it sticks together, hope that the crack doesn't grow until all your insides come spilling right out. - Author: Leila Sales

#26. Sacrificing everything that you care about in order to make another person happy is not love. It's not really that some people are gardeners and some people are flowers, Arden. It's that we both must be both, each in our own time. - Author: Leila Sales

#27. If there's one common thread throughout all of history, it's that people have always fallen for the wrong people. - Author: Leila Sales

#28. And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece. - Author: Leila Howland

#29. Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#30. I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors. - Author: Leila Janah

#31. I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense. - Author: Leila Janah

#32. Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated. - Author: Leila Janah

#33. In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red. - Author: Leila Sales

#34. That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on. - Author: Leila Sales

#35. I believe there is no other way to create decent livelihoods for the world's poorest people than to connect them to global markets as producers, and on fair terms. - Author: Leila Janah

#36. Because before the time when you're heartbroken, you get to be in love, and that's worth it. - Author: Leila Sales

#37. I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet. - Author: Leila Janah

#38. It's not fair. Guys can embrace their fatness as a unique personality trait, but we girls have to sit on the very edge of chairs in our shorts so as not to reveal the back-of-the-leg cellulite we feel bad for having even though everyone does. - Author: Leila Howland

#39. The amount of work that a for-profit has to do to get real money is minimal compared to the amount of work it takes a non-profit to get even a very small grant. - Author: Leila Janah

#40. He's a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,' Nico said. 'The last few years, he's been my driver whenever I need one.'
'You have a zombie chauffeur,' Leila said. - Author: Rick Riordan

#41. That's one thing about going to an all-girls' school your whole life: it's hard to believe that boys are people too. - Author: Leila Howland

#42. I do want to believe that there's some place in the world that's more mature than high school," Vicky said. "But I haven't found it yet. - Author: Leila Sales

#43. We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family's standard of living. - Author: Leila Janah

#44. Without a word, my dog taught me the meaning of love. - Author: Leila Grandemange

#45. It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work. - Author: Leila Janah

#46. It's much easier for people to compare wages or identify bad employers or discuss bad labor practices in the Internet economy than it was in, say, a factory environment, where that stuff wasn't usually published or available. - Author: Leila Janah

#47. I grew up in Los Angeles, where long drives on packed freeways make everyone a fan of radio and, particularly, of America's national treasure, National Public Radio. - Author: Leila Janah

#48. My body is the only thing that's truly mine, so I don't give it away as though it's worthless. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#49. And the proof of his insanity? His belief that the U.S. government was a repressive conspiracy that muzzled radical opinion. Only an insane person would believe that! The Unabomber had really, really liked Leila. - Author: Jonathan Franzen

#50. I came here because I didn't want to be alone anymore" I answered him. "That's a good reason" he murmured. - Author: Leila Sales

#51. I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#52. Well, I will tell you: making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards. - Author: Leila Sales

#53. Months ago, you made me ask you if you would marry me. This time, I'm not asking. I'm telling you to say yes, so say it, and be mine for eternity. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#54. It's a dungeon, Leila. They're Supposed to smell.
Mission accomplished. The stench might have actually killed my new appetite. If hell could fart, it would smell like this. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#55. Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me. - Author: Leila Howland

#56. It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#57. Time and again we've seen that reducing poverty comes down to economic opportunity-not just connecting the poor to services like banking, but ensuring they can be producers on fair terms in the global economy. - Author: Leila Janah

#58. I had always thought that if I just did something extraordinary enough, then people would like me. But that wasn't true. You will drive away everyone by being extraordinary ... . But you, you will never learn your lesson. The world embraces ordinary. The world will never embrace you. - Author: Leila Sales

#59. But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time. - Author: Leila Sales

#60. Isn't that funny, to think that the people who have lived in your daydreams for the past two weeks, the people whom you've drawn in your chemistry notebook, to think that those people might not even know who you are? - Author: Leila Sales

#61. This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool. - Author: Leila Sales

#62. Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called struggle. - Author: Leila Khaled

#63. So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government. - Author: Leila Janah

#64. I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit. - Author: Leila Janah

#65. I grew up around animals [seven horses, dogs and now a pet goldfish named Leila] and I'm rebelling against them not having a natural existence. - Author: Isabel Lucas

#66. Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not. - Author: Leila Janah

#67. As I rang the buzzer to his apartment building, I imagined him, maybe with a bunch of his friends, hiding behind a parked car, watching me, laughing, and saying, "Oh my God, I can't believe she actually showed up. Like she believed I was serious! - Author: Leila Sales

#68. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. - Author: Leila Sales

#69. Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore. - Author: Leila Sales

#70. It was a ridiculous question. Did I _love_ Char? Did I feel about Char the same way I feel about the Beatles, string instruments in pop songs, the way Little Anthony sang high notes, the way Jerry Lee Lewis played piano? - Author: Leila Sales

#71. Very well. On my love for Mencheres, I swear that I will honor both you and Leila as my true partners, and I will keep my insolence, trickiness , filthiness, and general knavery to as much a minimum as I can manage. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#72. It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night. - Author: Leila Sales

#73. I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term. - Author: Leila Janah

#74. Out of her pocket and answers it. I didn't hear it ring. "Mr. Grey," she says. Leila and I turn to look at her. Prescott closes her eyes as if in pain. - Author: E.L. James

#75. In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing. - Author: Leila Janah

#76. Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance. - Author: Leila Janah

#77. The sweetest things in life were not necessarily what one strove for and grabbed. Instead, many many times the All-Merciful, the All-Generous would give His servants without being petitioned, without waiting to be asked. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#78. The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth. - Author: Leila Janah

#79. So it seems like all of history is concurrent. Its not a linear series of events. Its all happening simultaneously. There is one moment, and that moment is now, and we are always present in it.So Im not reenacting history so much as just living every time at once. - Author: Leila Sales

#80. Char had a phone number. He had a home. He probably had a job or a college and a last name and parents and all of that, too. He didn't just spring into existence late on Thursday night and then blink out again at two a.m. He was a real person. - Author: Leila Sales

#81. Yes, but you are still only human."
I laughed, the sound of it drowned out by the crunch of rocks as the mountain continued to shudder as though in the throes of birth pangs.
"So was Van Helsing, yet in every movie, he beat the vampire in the end. Never underestimate the power of humanity. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#82. My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#83. I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood and the hysterical parents and the guilt, any of it. But sometimes I liked the idea of simply not having to be here anymore, not having to deal with my life. As if death could be just an extended vacation. - Author: Leila Sales

#84. It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra. - Author: Leila Josefowicz

#85. Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living. - Author: Leila Sales

#86. I have a theoryd that the first person you fall for creates a model for how you approach relationships going forward. Like, it frames how you'll look at every person who you date after that. - Author: Leila Sales

#87. You will learn to love again - Author: Leila Sales

#88. Walking at night is like walking in a dream. It's dark, so I don't notice much of the scenery. I don't wear my watch, so time becomes meaningless. - Author: Leila Sales

#89. The white boots with unicorns printed on them because, even though I'm fifteen, I still think the unicorn would be the world's greatest animal. - Author: Leila Sales

#90. When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them. - Author: Leila Sales

#91. This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices. - Author: Jeaniene Frost

#92. Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well. - Author: Leila Sales

#93. That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day. - Author: Leila Aboulela

#94. There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all. - Author: Leila Sales

#95. Which to you have?' Mel asked, blocking the entry with his body. 'Talent or issues?' I paused for a moment, thought about this. 'Both,' I said at last. - Author: Leila Sales

#96. Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be. - Author: Leila Sales

#97. I know the Smiths, I snapped, because lord knows you can launch any kind of criticism at me, lord knows I've heard it all before, but don't you dare doubt my musical knowledge. There's not much I can do right, just this one thing, but you cannot take this one thing from me. - Author: Leila Sales

#98. We didn't kiss," I said. Jules cocked an eyebrow. "We brushed lips. - Author: Leila Howland

#99. What do you think, Elizabeth?" Dad turned to me.
"Um, my name's still Chelsea. Remember, you named me that yourself? When I was born? - Author: Leila Sales

#100. Sally and Chava eat only raw vegetables for lunch because they are trying to lose weight. Then they split a pack of Entenmann's doughnuts for dessert. - Author: Leila Sales