Quotes by Pakistani Authors

People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.
Kanza Javed
The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word "law". It is like prescribing a punishment for adultery after raping the country. It is like saying that Holy Quran is suspended nobody can escape from the Hadees.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence.
Malala Yousafzai
I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyond the valley. But, as I watched my brother running across the roof, flying their kites and skillfully flicking the strings back and forth to cut each other's down, I wondered hoe free a daughter could ever be.
Malala Yousafzai
The various worms eat one's body after its death; conversely, cancer cells eat one's body, when it breathes, since the failure of medical research.
Ehsan Sehgal
I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams
Noorilhuda
You see, my son, a city is all about how you look at it...We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
Bilal Tanweer
We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
Bilal Tanweer
a city is all about how you look at it
Bilal Tanweer
My dear, you are not one person. You have many people in you, and each one can ask only some kinds of questions.
Bilal Tanweer
for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.
Bilal Tanweer
You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea.
Benazir Bhutto
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
Once a sarriyal, always a sarriyal, she thought.
Sara Naveed
Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing
Sanjai panhwar
That which is worth telling is not worth having.
Raheel Farooq
Women prefer speaking to talking.
Raheel Farooq
The stronger you become, the lower your voice become.
Moosa Rahat
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
Raheel Farooq
Just remember even your worst days only have 24 hours.
Moosa Rahat
Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness.
Hina Hashmi
Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.
Raheel Farooq
Our story may have any number of endings, but it begins with a singular choice we make today
Faisal Khosa
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two boys realize they'd die for one another, that each cares more for the other than he does for himself, and it lasts usually until a second love comes on the scene, because most hearts aren't big enough to love more than one person like that.
Mohsin Hamid
Even in the darkness of the closed box she felt trapped inside, she could see light shining in through tiny holes on the lid.They were like the stars beckoning her towards a place where all would be simple . . . away from the shadows, away from the darkness.
Umair Naeem
All of my days are held in your hand, crafted into your perfect Plan.
Moosa Rahat
Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.
Raheel Farooq
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Don't let the urge to everyday, blindfold you to ultimately loose in life.
Faisal Khosa
Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
Mohsin Hamid
A wrong mind-set is like bad soil that restricts a plant’s growth. Similarly, limiting beliefs about ‘what we deserve’ hinder our growth. They stop us from being abundant in every area of our life.
Hina Hashmi
Perhaps, it is better to be decided than undecided. But it is certainly the best to stay decidedly undecided.
Raheel Farooq
So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
Sabaa Tahir
Think a hundred times before you take a decision, but once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
Raheel Farooq
If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all
Mohsin Hamid
Endurance makes the person strong and it's only give by God.
Noor-us-Sahar
How to hold the dignity; one should prevent, to be a toy in the hands of others. Consequently, one stands independently with its dignity; otherwise toy stays toy for another's purpose and pleasure, nothing else.
Ehsan Sehgal
No exceptions to exceptions!
Raheel Farooq
But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.
Muhammad Iqbal
Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.
Sabaa Tahir
The best people always care their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness. But not the bad.
Ehsan Sehgal
Bury your enemies with success.
Moosa Rahat
Limits are always extended, never broken.
Raheel Farooq
Time is our most precious currency. So it’s significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.
Mohsin Hamid
It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial - it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it was.
Noorilhuda
You just gave her an angry glance in return. It was the kind of glance that children give their parents when they know exactly the kind of total power they have over them and when the temptation to shatter them with one word, one phrase is overwhelming, but something – just the vague knowledge perhaps that the mess they create would be too great to gather – holds them back.
Bilal Tanweer
Most Sexiest Moment is "CELEBRATION
m. shahid nadeem
World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!
Raheel Farooq
Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.
Raheel Farooq
Somewhere disappears the religion; however, exists the humanity and somewhere religion alive, but the humanity is dead while each religion teaches it, without that no one can be a human.
Ehsan Sehgal
A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to refer only to the organized and politically motivated killing of civilians by killers not wearing the uniforms of soldiers. I recognized that if this was to be the single most important priority of our species, then the lives of those of us who lived in lands in which such killers also lived had no meaning except as collateral damage. This, I reasoned, was why America felt justified in bringing so many deaths to Afghanistan and Iraq, and why America felt justified in risking so many more deaths by tacitly using India to pressure Pakistan.
Mohsin Hamid
Islam has nothing to do with any act of terrorism. We reject every act of extremism and terrorism unconditionally.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
They [terrorists] can’t claim that their suicide bombings are martyrdom operations and that they become the heroes of the Muslim Ummah [global brotherhood]. No, they become heroes of hellfire, and they are leading towards hellfire.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.
Malala Yousafzai
The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward they seem arrogant
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
People will give away almost anything in charity, but their unadulterated attention must be earned
Faisal Khosa