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| 21c01b3 | was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 452ea75 | Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought more wicked than they are. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 5c3cc95 | I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 960c7f7 | walked about a furlong | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 1f95026 | That as my sister-in-law at Colchester had said, beauty, wit, manners, sense, good humour, good behaviour, education, virtue, piety, or any other qualification, whether of body or mind, had no power to recommend; that money only made a woman agreeable; that men chose mistresses indeed by the gust of their affection, and it was requisite to a whore to be handsome, well-shaped, have a good mien and a graceful behaviour; but that for a wife, n.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 59757a8 | Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 06854e9 | The killing of time is the worst of murders. Daniel Defoe | Sandi Toksvig | ||
| 61f5885 | All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man's foot which I had seen; for as yet I never saw any human creature come near the island, and I had now lived two years under these uneasinesses, which indeed made my life much less comfortable than it was before; | Daniel Defoe | ||
| db0d7fe | This renewed a contemplation which often had come to my thoughts in former time, when first I began to see the merciful dispositions of Heaven in the dangers we run through in this life; how wonderfully we are delivered when we know nothing of it; how when we are in a quandary, as we call it, a doubt or hesitation, whether to go this way or that way, a secret hint shall direct us this way, when we intended to go that way; nay, when sense, o.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| dd075fe | Let no man despise the secret hints and notices of danger, which sometimes are given him, when he may think there is no possibility of its being real. That such hints and notices are given us, I believe few that have made any observations of things can deny; that they are certain discoveries of an invisible world, and a converse of spirits, we cannot doubt; and if the tendency of them seems to be to warn us of danger, why should we not supp.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| 15f5080 | We say of some Nations, the People are lazy, but we should say only, they are poor; Poverty is the Fountain of all Manner of Idleness. --DANIEL DEFOE, A Plan of the English Commerce | Neal Stephenson | ||
| a0289dc | I smiled at him, and told him that men in our circumstances were past the operation of fear: that seeing almost every condition that could be, was better than that which we were supposed to be in, we ought to expect that the consequence, whether death or life, would be sure to be a deliverance. I asked him what he thought of the circumstances of my life, and whether a deliverance were not worth venturing for. 'And where, sir,' said I, 'is y.. | Daniel Defoe | ||
| c24317a | Tidak ada kata yang terucap, tidak ada yang perlu kami katakan, inilah harta yang dimiliki oleh mereka yang menyimpan kenangan yang sama, yang saling menjadi kenangan pertama, yang menyusu dari payudara yang sama. | the-kite-runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 38fb7e1 | Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| f28a596 | Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2ce3349 | Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence. | time | Khaled Hosseini | |
| f5b4816 | A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 896cbfa | So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one. But just the one. Don't either of you ask me for more. It's late, and we have a long day of travel ahead of us, Pari, you and I. You will need your sleep tonight. And you too, Abdullah. I am counting on you, boy, while your sister and I are away. So is your mother. Now. One story, then. Listen, both of you, listen well. And don't interrupt. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 3655520 | have lived a long time, Mr. Markos, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 05c2662 | if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2f006c7 | They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 8619e27 | Theft is the one unforgivable sin, the one common denominator of all sins. When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched then stealing. | life-lessons | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 21e61b4 | A. I want my readers to remember a book of mine after they've turned the last page, partly so they will want to read more from me, but also because I want them to feel that reading it was well worth their time. I guess I want a book that I write to be more than entertainment that is enjoyable for the moment but forgettable as the months go by. I don't make a conscious effort to craft quotable prose when I write, but I do endeavor to pose qu.. | Susan Meissner | ||
| 799c333 | They say, find a purpose in life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift | purpose-of-life | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 16a6fd4 | A ratos, cuando se volvia para sacudir la ceniza del cigarrillo en un platito, yo aprovechaba para mirar de soslayo las unas rojas de sus pies, el brillo dorado de las pantorrillas afeitadas, el pronunciado empeine y, siempre, los senos turgentes y perfectamente redondeados. Me maravillaba que en este mundo hubiese hombres que habian tocado y besado aquellos senos mientras le hacian el amor. ?Que mas se le podia pedir a la vida despues de a.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 11b9f17 | Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life, you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. There is no act more wretched than stealing. A man who takes what's not his to take, be it .. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| c0f7a98 | Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His arrival to the Holy city. While 'Hussain' is a derivation of 'Hassan' that means 'GOOD' (I also owe this one to Khaled Hosseini). That's how my favorite character in my debut novel 'When Strangers meet..' gets his name... HUSSAIN ANSARI, because he is the one who helps Jai realize the truth in the story and inspir.. | anecdotes hassan hussain india inspirational islam iyer jai khaled-hosseini mecca medina mohammad mohammed mohmet muslim pakistan pathan pathanvali peace philosophy prophet trivia when-strangers-meet | K. Hari Kumar | |
| 1caa1e1 | What shall I tell you of the years that ensued? You know well the recent history of this beleaguered country. I need not to rehash for you those dark days. I tire at the mere thought of writing it, and, besides, the suffering of this country has already been sufficiently chronicled, and by pens far more learned and eloquent than mine. I can sum it up in one word: war. Or rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, jus.. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 57939dd | James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?" I blink and my mother blinks back, and then she is laughing and so am I. Even as I crumple inside." | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 0100eae | 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 | ||
| e3f25fb | yrGmwn l'wld `l~ lnDmm l~ lmjhdyn f~ wDH lnhr wtHt thdyd lslH, ysHbwnhm mn lshwr`. w`ndm ymskhm jnwd mylyshy m`dy@ y`dhbwnhm blkhrb wyntz`wn khSyWhm blkmsh@. yjbrwnhm `l~ 'n yqwdwnhm l~ mnzlhm. thm yqtHmwnh, yqtlwn lab wyGtSbwn l'khwt wl'mht | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| de0981f | When the Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they'd taken offence at the birds' long bare legs. After they'd tied the cousin's feet and flogged his soles bloody, they had presented him with a choice: Either destroy the paintings or make the flamingos decent. So the cousin had picked up his brush and painted trousers on every last bird. "And there you have it, Islamic flamingos," - "But he'll have the last laugh, the cousin," Tariq .. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 03fbf4f | Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 191eb6b | It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime, Amir, | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| d5f0614 | lili lili birdbath sitting on a dirtpath | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 16884d5 | '`rf lan 'n b`D lns ykhbw'wn lt`s@ bnfs lTryq@ lty ykhby' lakhrwn bh lHb | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2f13027 | Kinderen zijn geen kleurboeken. Je kunt ze niet met je lievelingskleuren inkleuren. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 6612588 | Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yang berbeda dari warna yang sama. | khaled-hosseini | Khaled Hosseini | |
| 632b6db | When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 2193b98 | People mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| a8c219e | Sospecho que, en el fondo, lo que todos esperamos, contra todo pronostico, es que nos suceda algo extraordinario. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| b033248 | Other Afghans from American, or from Europe," Amra says, "they come and take picture of her. They take video. They make promises. Then they go home and show their families. LIke she is zoo animal. I allow it because I think maybe they will help. But they forget. I never hear from them." -- | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| 4dd4ab6 | she had hang up knowing that for the rest of her life it would slam into her at random moments, the guilt, the terrible remorse, catching her off guard, and that she would ache to the bones with it. She would wrestle with this, now and for all days to come. It would be the dripping faucet at the back of her mind. | Khaled Hosseini | ||
| fbad71c | Here is what I do on the first day of snowfall every year: I step out of the house early in the morning, still in my pajamas, hugging my arms against the chill. I find the driveway, my father's car, the walls, the trees, the rooftops, and the hills buried under a foot of snow. I smile. The sky is seamless and blue, the snow so white my eyes burn. I shovel a handful of the fresh snow into my mouth, listen to the muffled stillness broken only.. | Khaled Hosseini |