Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Cobain

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Khaled Hosseini

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

Khaled Hosseini

I was good at being a doctor; my patients liked me. At times people trust you with things they wouldn't tell their spouses. It was a real privilege.

Khaled Hosseini

I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

Khaled Hosseini

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

Khaled Hosseini

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

Khalil Gibran

Let your best be for your friend...

Kevin Allen

My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting up that's the real trick." I couldn't agree more.

Kevin Allen

I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out to create, is vitally important.

Kevin Allen

First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go as a collective community.

Kevin Allen

What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to lead, and is, in my option, the only way to inspire real change.

Kevin Allen

At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.

Kevin Allen

All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria for that real ambition, is that on initial inspection, it seems fundamentally impossible.

Kerry Washington

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

Kenneth Lonergan

Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Real vision is the ability to see the invisible.

Jonathan Swift

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Celebrity has lost its value - all you have to do is go on a reality TV show for six weeks and everybody knows your name.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.

Jonathan Nolan

None of us like violence in the real world, but we're fascinated with it onscreen.

Jonathan Raban

The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

Jonathan Sacks

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no real force without justice.

Naomie Harris

One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.

Naomie Harris

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

Naomi Wolf

It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

Narendra Modi

People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

Narendra Modi

Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.

Narendra Modi

Real time functioning should have the PM and the CMs of the states working in tandem. The Federal structure is important in letter and spirit, it is our strength

Narendra Modi

A good government is one with many information channels, those that give real-time information.

Narendra Modi

I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.