Taliban The Kite Runner Quotes

1. "If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a little stronger in Afghanistan and the civil war will continue to be enhanced in Iraq."
Author: Alcee Hastings

2. "We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night..."
Author: Andrea Gibson

3. "Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest."
Author: Bill Rodgers

4. "I'm sure that's just what Mr. Worthington was thinking as Luther Kite butchered him.  ‘Boy, I'm glad I have this faith.'""
Author: Blake Crouch

5. "Blade Runner helped make my career. Everybody was in it. Who knew?"
Author: Brion James

6. "Nearly all runners do their slow runs too fast, and their fast runs too slow." Ken Mierke says. "So they're just training their bodies to burn sugar, which is the last thing a distance runner wants. You've got enough fat stored to run to California, so the more you train your body to burn fat instead of sugar, the longer your limited sugar tank is going to last."-The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold--your hard-breathing point--during your endurance runs."
Author: Christopher McDougall

7. "She gave me a dirty look. Then she broke into the bubbly champagne laugh. She turned and ran, limping but steady. She laughed over he shoulder, letting out the line as I held the kite above my head. "Run with me, Rose," she cried."
Author: Elizabeth Wein

8. "One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long distance runner.My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these are secondary. For a runner like me, what's really important is reaching the goal I set myself, under my own power. I give it everything I have, endure what needs enduring, and am able, in my own way, to be satisfied. From out of the failures and joys I always try to come away having grasped a concrete lesson. (It's got to be concrete, no matter how small it is.) And I hope that, over time, as one race follows another, in the end I'll reach a place I'm content with. Or maybe just catch a glimpse of it."
Author: Haruki Murakami

9. "My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these are secondary. For a runner like me, what's really important is reaching the goal I set myself, under my own power. I give it everything I have, endure what needs enduring, and am able, in my own way, to be satisfied."
Author: Haruki Murakami

10. "In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs."
Author: Henri Bergson

11. "Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?'Minho shook his head. 'No, we're just training you - someone'll want a break. Don't worry, it's been a while since a Runner was killed.'For some reason that last statement worried Thomas, though he hoped it didn't show on his face."
Author: James Dashner

12. "...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth..."
Author: John Geddes

13. "And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan."
Author: John R. Allen

14. "Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention."
Author: Keith Henson

15. "Les enfants ne sont pas des livres de coloriage. Tu ne peux pas les peindre avec tes couleurs préférées. The kite runner"
Author: Khaled Hosseini

16. "I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until he finally agreed. He made me wait because it can be dangerous."
Author: Maika Monroe

17. "We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different."
Author: Malala Yousafzai

18. "As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us."
Author: Peter King

19. "Why?" Eve asked between breathless pants. she wasn't much of a runner either."Someone's coming" Shane said. "Shhhh."Eve choked and strangled on a cough, and muttered "got to cut down on the cigarettes.""you don't smoke," Claire whispered."then i'm completely screwed."
Author: Rachel Caine

20. "California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks."
Author: S.E. Hinton

21. "Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it."
Author: Sam Harris

22. "Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails."
Author: Sarah Addison Allen

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