Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 3

Women prefer speaking to talking.
Raheel Farooq
Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.
Bilal Tanweer
To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.
Asma Naqi
A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.
Raheel Farooq
They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth
Imran Khan
Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
Moosa Rahat
Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!
Raheel Farooq
Life is a journey from God to God.
Moosa Rahat
What I've always taken away from his words is the sense that we all have something that confines us, that seeks to define us, label us, belittling us in the process, shortchanging our potential. Can it be that that is our sanctuary, our refuge, our way to liberty?
Noorilhuda
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.
Mohsin Hamid
Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
Raheel Farooq
Truth can be stated simply, but cannot be understood as such.
Raheel Farooq
He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.
Noorilhuda
When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.
Hina Hashmi
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Imran Khan
When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trustBetrayal in bounds of liesIt’s just the charm of words darlingGiving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.
Raheel Farooq
Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
Sabaa Tahir
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs.
Kamila Shamsie
Allah says in Surah Ar-Rahman that every thing in the Heavens and the Earth begs Allah for its needs. The argument can be made that an atheist doesn't ask Allah for anything at all. The answer to that is simple: his throat begs to Allah when it is thirsty, his heart seeks permission from Allah before beating each and every single time, and every blood cell asks Allah's permission before traveling through his veins. There is only one small part of his heart, his free will, that is in disobedience to Allah. And even that part will beg to Allah on Judgment Day.
Nouman Ali Khan
I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?
Noorilhuda
For the Qur’ān, it is neither strange nor out of tune nor blameworthy for a prophetthat he is not always consistent as a human. It is nevertheless as a human that hebecomes an example for mankind, for his average level of conduct is still so high that it is a worthy model for mankind.
Fazlur Rahman
The eyes and the sex understand and know every language without any distinction.
Ehsan Sehgal
The non-serious and awkward way of approach faces the collapse and loss in one's trust.
Ehsan Sehgal
Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Sabaa Tahir
One's character is key to its fate and future of life that how one executes and prosecutes it.
Ehsan Sehgal
Subtle difference between a hero and an opportunist is not where you stand, but its timing. Standing up against injustice when it suits is convenience, not heroism
Faisal Khosa
I was an utterance in absentia. I was a forgotten word, uttered and mislaid long ago. I was the word that existed because there was another word that was my opposite, and without it I was nothing. I gained meaning only by acknowledging that possible other.Nida
Faiqa Mansab
I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!
Natasha Ahmed
If one has not been able to experience God by himself, one should allow himself to be guided by the experiences of others who have experienced Him
Muhammad Asad
Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.
Mohsin Hamid
It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.
Intisar Khanani
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.
Kanza Javed
When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Keep your ears open and listen to the whispers of the universe, because they will guide you for the best.
Hina Hashmi
InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning
Irum Zahra
To hold that the Qur’ān believes in an absolute determinism of human behavior, denying free choice on man's part, is not only to deny almost the entire content of theQu r’ān, but to undercut its very basis: the Qur’ān by its own claim is an invitation to man to come to the right path (hudan lil-nās).
Fazlur Rahman
Learn, or you'll be made to learn.
Raheel Farooq
No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.
Mirza Tahir Ahmad
Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
The first thing I would like to share with youhere is that when you help people, you don’t waitaround until they say thank you because you didn’thelp them so you can hear appreciation.
Nouman Ali Khan
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Nouman Ali Khan
Do not judge my success by the destination I reached but the distance I traveled.
Majid Kazmi
What you desire is what you want, what you have is what Allah wants.
Nouman Ali Khan
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which you are supposed to represent. Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
They were happy, I thought. As a child, laughter is all you need as proof of happiness. As a child you don't know there are so many different kinds of laughter - like different varieties of birds. Some are flightless.
Faiqa Mansab
Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded.
Imran Khan
How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?
Shaila M. Abdullah
One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Diyar-e-Ishq Mein Apna Maqam Paida Kar,Naya Zamana, Naye Subah-o-Sham Paida Kar;Khuda Agar Dil-e-Fitrat Shanas De Tujh Ko,Sakoot-e-Lala-o-Gul Se Kalaam Paida Kar;Mera Tareeq Ameeri Nahin, Faqeeri Hai,Khudi Na Baich, Ghareebi Mein Naam Paida KarBuild in love’s empire your hearth and your home;Build Time anew, a new dawn, a new eve!Your speech, if God give you the friendship of Nature,From the rose and tulip’s long silence weaveThe way of the hermit, not fortune, is mine;Sell not your soul! In a beggar’s rags shine.
Muhammad Iqbal
You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the state.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
in piecesyet at peacei am a building in a post war city
Noor Unnahar
Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
Nadeem Aslam
We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
Hina Hashmi