Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

They were walking side by side, but each was alone.

If it does not grow, even though you are working hard, it is not because of unfavorable circumstances, bad timing, or bad luck. ... of the past has shown, it is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth.

I am not ashamed of my past and don't intend to be ashamed of it.

One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate — disgusting behavior! (p. 46)

The idol of your self is the mother of all idols. To regard the self as easy to subdue is a mistake.

In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

? nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

To be popular is easy; to be right when right is unpopular, is noble... I repudiate with scorn the immoral doctrine, 'Our country, right or wrong'.

Knowing what we do of our past, no Jew can be an optimist.

Life in the islands is not easy, because there are very few resources, and you could say that my life and life in the islands are related

Every habit and faculty is confirmed and strengthened by the corresponding actions, that of walking by walking, that of running by running.

I'm very happy to win a second time, I found it to be a very easy race.

[in London] Hey, I'm walking here! You're driving on the wrong side of the road! Bunch of amateurs, these people don't get it!