Top 100 Quotes About Laila
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. I'm not sure exactly. Against what, Addie?" Laila asks with a smirk. "Against unnormalcy. Antiaverageness.
Kasie West
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Addie," Laila says, feigning concern and jumping down next to me. "Did you get hurt? What happened?
Kasie West
#8. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor.
Khaled Hosseini
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. In the middle of the night, when Laila woke up thirsty, she found their hands still clamped together, in the white-knuckle, anxious way of children clutching balloon strings.
Khaled Hosseini
#14. 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
Laila Ali
#15. Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.
Khaled Hosseini
#16. By the time we're twenty, Hasina used to say, Giti and I, we'll have pushed out four, five kids each. But you, Laila, you'll make us two dummies proud. You're going to be somebody. I know one day I'll pick up a newspaper and find your picture on the front page.
Khaled Hosseini
#17. It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.
Erri De Luca
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that's all she can do. That and hope.
Khaled Hosseini
#21. Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.
Khaled Hosseini
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.
Salman Rushdie
#26. 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
#27. But maybe I'm supposed to include a little something about each of them. Like, Duke, this is Laila; she thinks you're hot. Laila, this is Duke; he and his mirror share a close relationship.
Kasie West
#28. But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her
Khaled Hosseini
#29. Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
Khaled Hosseini
#30. Walter, my first wife, Laila, used to throw around a quote. I don't know who said it first, but it went something like, 'If men menstruated, there would floating federal holidays for them.
Seth Kaufman
#31. Duke says, "Pause," and the movie goes quiet. "What did Laila say?
Kasie West
#32. Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
Laila Ali
#33. 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
#34. I like to play by my own rules.
Laila Ali
#35. 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
#36. If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.
Laila Ali
#37. Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins
#38. 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
#39. From that blighted time came the saying: when bellies speak, reason is lost.
Laila Lalami
#40. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. She believed that he believed that, but who set out with anything other than good intentions?
Laila Raimes
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. 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
#59. It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
Laila Robins
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. You're not going to cry, are you?
- I am not going to cry! Not over you. Not in a thousand years.
Khaled Hosseini
#65. To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.
Laila Lalami
#66. I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
Laila Ali
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
Laila Ali
#73. As far as I concerned, God loves ever'body so God forgives ever'body so ever'body gonna get to heaven.
Laila Ibrahim
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
Laila Robins
#77. 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
#78. As for you Walter Granden, get out of The Willoughby Palace once and for all, and don't come back ever again.
Sylvie Jones
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
Laila Ali
#83. 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
#84. I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
Laila Ali
#86. '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
#87. This wasn't how their story was supposed to go. This wasn't what she dreamed of. And yet, everything had changed.
Laila Blake
#88. I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
Laila Ali
#89. 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
#90. Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
Laila Ali
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion.
Laila Ali
#94. 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
#95. He, too, wanted to tell the story of our adventure in his own way. Praise
Laila Lalami
#96. Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is.
Laila Ali
#97. No lies are more seductive than the ones we use to console ourselves.
Laila Lalami
#98. The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.
Laila Lalami
#99. Do not allow a gentleman to overhear you speaking about courtship, literature, or politics.
Laila Ibrahim
#100. I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.
Laila Ali
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