Top 100 Quotes About Leila
#1. 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.
Leila Sales
#2. 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.
Leila Janah
#3. 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.
E.L. James
#4. 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.
Leila Janah
#5. It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.
Leila Sales
#6. 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.
Jeaniene Frost
#7. 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?
Leila Sales
#8. Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.
Leila Sales
#9. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
Leila Sales
#10. 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!
Leila Sales
#11. Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.
Leila Janah
#12. 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.
Isabel Lucas
#13. I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.
Leila Aboulela
#14. 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.
Leila Janah
#15. 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.
Leila Khaled
#16. This should have been a red flag, I realize in retrospect. Working really hard on anything is, by definition, not cool.
Leila Sales
#17. 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?
Leila Sales
#18. But you know better than anyone how the Internet sees everything and nothing, all at the same time.
Leila Sales
#19. 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.
Leila Sales
#20. 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.
Leila Janah
#21. It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.
Leila Aboulela
#22. Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.
Leila Howland
#23. 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.
Jeaniene Frost
#24. 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.
Jeaniene Frost
#25. Well, I will tell you: making friends is actually not that hard when you drop every single one of your standards.
Leila Sales
#26. 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.
Leila Janah
#27. 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.
Leila Sales
#28. 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?
Leila Sales
#29. We didn't kiss," I said. Jules cocked an eyebrow. "We brushed lips.
Leila Howland
#30. 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.
Leila Sales
#31. Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.
Leila Sales
#32. 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.
Leila Sales
#33. There are so many rules that you don't know, and no matter how much you study, you can't learn them all.
Leila Sales
#34. That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.
Leila Aboulela
#35. Anyone who said I believe in you obviously didn't know me very well.
Leila Sales
#36. 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.
Jeaniene Frost
#37. 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.
Leila Sales
#38. 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.
Leila Janah
#39. 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.
Leila Sales
#41. 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.
Leila Sales
#42. Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living.
Leila Sales
#43. It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Leila Josefowicz
#44. 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.
Leila Sales
#45. My faith was started off by my grandmother and mother, and so I always saw it as a very private, personal thing.
Leila Aboulela
#46. 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.
Jeaniene Frost
#47. 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.
Leila Sales
#48. 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.
Leila Sales
#49. 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.
Leila Janah
#50. 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.
Leila Aboulela
#51. 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.
Leila Janah
#52. 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.
Leila Sales
#53. Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.
Leila Sales
#54. Oh, yeah, any functioning society has got to have its doctors, its teachers, and its nightlife photographers.
Leila Sales
#55. 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.
Leila Aboulela
#56. Small miracles happen every day, some people just don't notice them.
Leila Summers
#57. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.
Leila Sales
#58. 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.
Leila Sales
#59. I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid.
Leila Rasheed
#60. Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
Leila Janah
#61. Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.
Leila Janah
#62. I like talking to you,' he said, slowly.
'Why?' That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.
Leila Aboulela
#63. . . . and even the worst ice cream is better than no ice cream.
Leila Sales
#64. 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.
Leila Janah
#65. I didn't need to be the most exciting, beautiful, beloved girl in the world. I just needed not to be me anymore.
Leila Sales
#66. Look, the light turns yellow before it turns red, so if you see a yellow light, you might want to consider slowing the hell down.
Leila Sales
#67. Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.
Leila Janah
#68. Excuse me? You're the one who was out to mislead me with your alluring bimbo slinkiness! What if I had believed your act last night? What if I had fallen deeply and madly in love with you? You would have had the blood of my love-sickness on your hands, Leila Folger.
Lani Wendt Young
#69. I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared
Leila Aboulela
#70. This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.
Leila Sales
#71. Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs.
Leila Janah
#72. If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
Leila Josefowicz
#73. I founded Samasource because I was frustrated by traditional approaches to poverty alleviation. Even those approaches focused on jobs often equip poor people with skills for which there is little market demand.
Leila Janah
#74. 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.
Leila Sales
#75. I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
Leila Aboulela
#76. The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.
Leila Janah
#77. You were listening to some strangers when you could have benn listening to me talk about myself? Chelsea, how could you?
Leila Sales
#78. The greatest challenge of the next 50 years, I believe, will be to create dignified work for everyone ... not through handouts and charity, but through market forces.
Leila Janah
#79. A boy once told me that love without heartbreak is just a pretty myth.
Leila Sales
#80. I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.
Leila Aboulela
#81. The problem in a lot of low-income countries is that people take out loans to go and get degrees, which are then irrelevant in the job market.
Leila Janah
#82. Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?"
"There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish.
Loretta Chase
#83. Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
Leila Janah
#84. Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right.
Leila Sales
#85. 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
Leila Aboulela
#86. And why is it that so many years later it is so easy to distinguish the bullies from their prey? Adult bodies surrounding the children of long ago. The years have changed nothing.
Leila Aboulela
#87. What can I say, I have a thing for guys in period dress, okay? That's just who I am.
Leila Sales
#88. No matter what I think about this, Leila, you're my daughter, so you are not walking down that aisle alone.
Jeaniene Frost
#89. My father married out of the family. I also married outside the family.
Leila Aboulela
#90. My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
Leila Janah
#91. Honestly, Elise, sometimes it's like you don't even go to this school.' 'Well, that is the goal,' I said.
Leila Sales
#92. I am already socially disabled; I don't need to be mentally disabled on top of that.
Leila Sales
#93. 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.
Leila Aboulela
#94. Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.
Leila Janah
#95. Fiona says that I have trouble moving on. That I cling to the past ... I knew that I would miss it. I'd miss the way my life used to be when I worked there. I always miss the way my life used to be, and the best way to prevent that is to not change my life very much.
Leila Sales
#96. Like all stories, the one you are about to read is a love story.
If it wasn't, what would be the point?
Leila Sales
#97. You might be the cruelest person I've ever met," he said in a conversational tone.
"What?" I gasped.
"My first wife killed herself. Took me centuries to get over it and love again, yet you weren't going to mention that you might be compelled to slay yourself in front of me.
Jeaniene Frost
#98. I feel sometimes like ... there are all these rules. Just to be a person
Leila Sales
#99. 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.
Leila Sales
#100. What was life like ?
deprivation and abundance, side by side like a miracle. surrender to them both .
Poverty and sunshine, poverty and jewels in the sky .
Drought and the gushing Nile
Disease and clean hearts, stories from neighbours and relationships .
Leila Aboulela
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