Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 4

Expect the best, prepare for the worst.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The antagonists of finance’s future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
Usman W. Chohan
Honesty is a great thing, if tempered with love.
Osama Sarwar
These stories, I realized, were lost. Nobody was going to know that part of the city but as a place where a bomb went off. The bomb was going to become the story of this city. That's how we lose the city - that's how our knowledge of what the world is is taken away from us - when what we know is blasted into rubble and what is created in its place bears no resemblance to what there was and we are left strangers in a place we knew, in a place we ought to have known.
Bilal Tanweer
Life is a race for those who want success and journey for those who want to live their dreams.
Asim Khan
I'd love to be what I have been.
Raheel Farooq
Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.
Muhammad Iqbal
A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils.
Mohsin Hamid
So long as Muslims continue looking towards Western civilization as the only force that could regenerate their own stagnant society, they destroy their self-confidence and, indirectly, support the Western assertion that Islam is a "spent force".
Muhammad Asad
Happiness is little more perplexing, in its search you lose peace inside yourself.
raja shakeel mushtaque
The most important lesson life has taught me: Nothing can kill us other than death itself. So, be fearless, take chances, step out of your comfort zone, spread your wings and soar high. Live while you are alive.
Asma Naqi
Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!
Raheel Farooq
You see, everything going on in your life is stemming within you. The control of your life should always be in your hands. What other people think about you should not stop you from moving forward in life.
Hina Hashmi
Spirituality is a magnet, and the magnet affects iron, not the wood or stone. Similarly, faith and devotion are iron, who has that, spirituality touches the believer, not an unbeliever.
Ehsan Sehgal
Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.
Raheel Farooq
A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!
Aqeel Rafique
If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
Sabaa Tahir
You need to cleanse your mind throughout life because there is so much negativity in yourself and around. Keep cleaning and you will connect with the Universe quicker and effectively.
Hina Hashmi
Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.
Kamila Shamsie
The goal is to be rich, not to look rich.
Moosa Rahat
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
Noorilhuda
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Raheel Farooq
Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don't let it control you. Don't let it sow doubts within you. When the fear takes over, use the only thing more powerful, more indestructible, to fight it: your spirit. Your heart.
Sabaa Tahir
Do what is right,not easy or popular.
Fozia Malik
Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire Universe. You are indeed the Evident Book, by whose alphabet the Hidden becomes Manifest. Therefore you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.
Moosa Rahat
Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Never risk in the dark to search the light. Conversely, be light and shine in the darkness as a moon.
Ehsan Sehgal
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.
Mohsin Hamid
The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward they seem arrogant
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering
Faisal Khosa
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
Nadeem Aslam
Benazir Bhutto doesn't cease to exist the moment she gets married. I am not giving myself away. I belong to myself and I always shall.
Benazir Bhutto
I have a pesky little critic in the back of my mind. He's a permanent fixture and passes judgment on everything I write.In order to placate him, especially when I'm endeavoring to write anything as ambitious as a novel, I have to constantly mutter, 'I'm not writing a masterpiece, I'm not writing a masterpiece.'This mantra lulls him into a kind of stupor so that he pays no attention to what I'm doing, because after all, I'm not claiming it's any good. Slowly, and secretly, one page at a time, I write my story.I know I've succeeded when he grudgingly admits, 'That's pretty good.' And if I'm lucky, every once in a while, I blow him away.
Rukhsana Khan
Once as Nadia sat on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment of troops and a tank, she thought she saw online a photograph of herself sitting on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment of troops and a tank, and she was startled and wondered how this could be. How she could both read this news and be this news. And how the newspaper could have published this instantaneously, and she looked about for a photographer, and she had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she were from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.
Mohsin Hamid
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
Imran Khan
Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
What," "how," "when," etc are all questions more or less common to religion and philosophy. But to ask "why" is a transgression in religion, and this inquiry has undoubtedly taken the heaviest tolls on intellect.
Raheel Farooq
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
Kamila Shamsie
When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.
Pervez Musharraf
The Qur’ān definitely seems optimistic about the future, while rather grim about the past It is absolutely imperative for successor civilizations and their bearer communities to study well and learn from the fate of earlier ones that have perished; or they will assuredly meet with the same fate, for "God's law does not change" for any people. This is perhaps one of the most insistent ideas in the Qur’ān, which constantly exhorts people to "travel on the earth and see the end of those before them
Fazlur Rahman
The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not.
Mohsin Hamid
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.
Malala Yousafzai
And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.
Kanza Javed
She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.
Sabaa Tahir
The only way to do great work is to just do it!
Wali Zahid
Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you.
Moosa Rahat