I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's obvious.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
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.
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.
Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.
I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"
You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.
And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
I've never flown a kite.
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!
It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.
You can teach people specific reasoning, such as how to fly a kite or build a wheel. General reasoning cannot be imparted upon people, particularly if they like things the way they are - meaning, if their reactions are very simple. The reason most people behave badly or poorly is because they only understand simple things.
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.
a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.
For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.
No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and prepared to assume responsibilities.
Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.
Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.