DJ Khaled Quotes

Some people out there don't have life.

I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

I have a shield. It's the most amazing shield ever. I don't see them. I don't feel them. If anything, "Hey come over, let me touch you so I can heal you." You get what I'm saying?

That's what I represent: love.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock. And

There is a way to be good again.

The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

But then it passed, as all things do.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

[Flying kite with my friends] is one of the seminal memories of growing up for me.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

I guess some stories do not need telling.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.

I think the key is - other icons told me this - you don't have to chase the money. The money is going to chase you. That's part of success. That's part of the blessings.

[To lose twenty pounds] is not even about how much I lose and how fast, it's so much about being healthy.

I pray everyday. I make sure that my family is OK. I make sure my son is all right.

I will follow you to the ends of the world.

Sad stories make good books

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.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

I'm sure we could all relate because we've all got life. Some people ain't got it

I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swallow my tongue and die. Don’t leave me, Mariam jo. Please stay. I’ll die if you go.

The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things.

The story of what has happened to women in Afghanistan, however, is a very important one, and fertile ground for fiction.

I brought Hassan’s son from Afghanistan to America, lifting him from the certainty of turmoil and dropping him in a turmoil of uncertainty

The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly in the skies.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

I love all types of music myself.

Life is a train, get on board.

That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.

Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.

I'm not ashamed to say I fear something. Besides me having a fear to fly, I also don't want to scare other people. When I'm on a plane, I don't want to freak out everyone else, too.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.

Mind my own business.

This is not violence, this is legitimate resistance. This is our people's right to resist Israeli occupation.

[I do] my manicure/pedicure once a week. When I'm on the road, I use the hotel or whoever I call. But in Miami I have my own person.