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Quotes About Determination

Bareh tu hazar dafa!
~ Khaled Hosseini
You have to do it now. If you wait until morning, you'll lose heart.
~ Khaled Hosseini
And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
~ Khaled Hosseini
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
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
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
Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan.
~ Khaled Hosseini
For courage, there must be something at stake.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Darah memiliki kekuatan, jangan pernah lupakan itu.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Seperti dalam perang mana pun, kami harus mempersiapkan diri untuk bertempur.
~ Khaled Hosseini
She said this in a pragmatic, almost indifferent, tone, and Mariam understood that this was a woman far past outrage. Here was a woman, she thought, who had understood that she was lucky to even be working, that there was always something, something else, that they could take away.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's a funny thing Markos, but 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
You know nothing of courage," said Baba Ayub. "For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
~ Khaled Hosseini
she pushing her.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Vi que Farid miraba también, con su mano igualmente amputada colgando a un lado. Me acordé de los hijos de Wahid y... entonces comprendí una cosa: que no abandonaría Afganistán sin encontrar a Sohrab.
~ Khaled Hosseini
And so Mariam raised the shovel high, raised it as high as she could, arching it so it touched the small of her back. She turned it so the sharp edge was vertical, and, as she did, it occurred to her that this was the first time she was deciding the course of her own life. And, with that, Mariam brought down the shovel. This time, she gave it everything she had.
~ Khaled Hosseini
It's a funny thing, Markos, but 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
Tapi hampir menang tidaklah sama dengan menang, bukan?
~ Khaled Hosseini
Îndurasem prea mult, ajunsesem prea aproape. ?i deodat? speranÈ›a a devenit certitudine. Aveam s? câÈ™tig. Nu È™tiam când, dar aveam s? câÈ™tig.
~ Khaled Hosseini
without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her. Already Laila sees something behind this young girl's eyes, something deep in her core
~ Khaled Hosseini
Do you have it in you? To what? To use this thing. To kill with it. For you, he said. I'd kill with it for you, Laila.
~ Khaled Hosseini
In cativa ani, aceasta fetita va fi o femeie care nu va cere niciodata prea mult de la viata, care nu va impovara niciodata pe nimeni, care nu se va plange niciodata de faptul ca are si ea regrete, dezamagiri, vise care i-au fost calcalte in picioare. O femeie care va fi ca o piatra de rau, indurandu-le pe toate fara sa se planga; taria ei nu va fi macinata, ci slefuita de tumultul care va trece peste ea.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Yes," I said. "I'd miss you, a lot, and you know that. But you can't pass up a private school education. You'd go to university afterward. You could become a researcher, a scientist, a professor, an inventor. Isn't that what you want? You're the smartest person I know. You could be anything you want." I broke off. "No, Markos," Thalia said heavily. "No I couldn't.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Personal Note: I'm trying really hard to keep a straight face at this point)
~ Kieran Scott