"Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant."

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Khaled Hosseini

#Giving Quotes #Drs Quotes #May Quotes

“We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.”
“Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.”

Source : Sandra Lee Bartky (1990). “Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression”, p.72, Routledge
“The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.”
“The Visitors reported by contactees, abductees, and other witnesses may, in fact, be a highly advanced amphibian or reptilian culture from an extraterrestrial world, who evolved into the dominant species on their planet millions of years ago and who have interacted in Earth's evolution as explorers, observers, caretakers, and genetic engineers.”

Source : Brad Steiger, Sherry Hansen Steiger (2011). “Real Aliens, Space Beings, and Creatures from Other Worlds”, p.67, Visible Ink Press
“The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.”
“Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest art will be that which in its conscious content presents the thousandfold problems of the day, the art which has been visibly shattered by the explosions of last week The best and most extraordinary artists will be those who every hour snatch the tatters of their bodies out of the frenzied cataract of life, who, with bleeding hands and hearts, hold fast to the intelligence of their time.”
“[Albert Camus] also says that nothing is true which forces exclusion. From that, you're obliged to accept contradictions if you don't want to reject certain obvious things about life, certain evidences. If you create a system, and you say 'here there is truth', in that kind of pathway [chemin], then you'll evacuate all the other pathways and you'll kill life. It's up to each individual.”

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