Quote by Khaled Hosseini Download Open image ““Sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand.”” — Khaled Hosseini ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A blade cannot be safely grasped, it cuts any who touch it. Hold it lightly and you may be safe, take a firmer grip,… — T.C. Southwell Copy Share Image
“Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.” — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
“If you will use your fingers to count your own mistakes, you won't have time to finger others.” — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
“That was a basic rule for survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause.” — Stieg Larsson Copy Share Image
“The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger-” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What might seem a careless phrase for one can cut deep as a blade for another.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of man.” — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.” — C.J. Langenhoven Copy Share Image
“Winter was every kid’s favorite season in Kabul, at least those whose fathers could afford to buy a good iron stove. The reason was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Their fights didn’t so much end as dissipate, like a drop of ink in a bowl of water, with a residual taint that lingered.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“shoes: that putting them on a bed invited death into the family, that a quarrel would follow if one put on the left shoe… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
