Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 7

We should have stories in common, I found myself thinking. We should have stories, and jokes no one understands, and memories that we know will stay alive because neither of us will let the other forget.
Kamila Shamsie
Reasons were invented, and stories were reasons that allowed us to connect ourselves to the world, to compose ourselves in ways that others could read. Fragments were true but we needed stories greater than fragments. We needed stories in order to imagine the mad world we lived in.
Bilal Tanweer
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
When you appreciate what you have, and feel enthusiasm for life, you move in the direction of your natural state i.e. happy & peaceful.
Hina Hashmi
Gratitude is an overflow of the pleasure filling your soul.
Raheel Farooq
Similar aura patterns with someone indicate that we have same frequency at physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels, while the opposite is true for the people whom we dislike instantly.
Hina Hashmi
The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.
Asma Naqi
If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that everything ends. This is both the blessing and the punishment of God upon the foolish tribe that calls itself man. We can embrace the end or we can weep, but the ghost of time closes all doors with a finality that can never be gainsaid.
Kamran Pasha
To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.
Asma Naqi
A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!
Aqeel Rafique
Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.
Raheel Farooq
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
One sin occurs, naturally; conversely, one happens unnaturally, having human permission, which poisons, and damages the moral values of the entire humanity, since it is the worst one.
Ehsan Sehgal
Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.
Mohsin Hamid
A good judge is not one who is impartial, but one who has prejudice for good.
Raheel Farooq
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Imran Khan
Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close.
Moosa Rahat
Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.
Zaman Ali
Humanity is about raising up each other for good.
Zaman Ali
There is bad in good and there is no good in bad.
Zaman Ali
Treat your woman with respect, because one day someone will do the same to your daughter.
Moosa Rahat
A woman without her sister is like a bird without her wings.
Moosa Rahat
Nadia's experiences during her first months as a single woman living on her own did, in some moments, equal or even surpass the loathsomeness and dangerousness that her family had warned her about. But she had a job at an insurance company, and she was determined to survive, and so she did.
Mohsin Hamid
Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.
Ehsan Sehgal
Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?
Imran Khan
It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.
Intisar Khanani
Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.
Intisar Khanani
Some of the toughest ayaat in the Quran have Allah's name "ar-Rahman" in them to make it clear that just because Allah is the Most Merciful, it doesn't mean He's not going to carry out justice.
Nouman Ali Khan
Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future.
Malala Yousafzai
Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.
Kamila Shamsie
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
But the most catastrophic display of misogyny in all religion lies at the very heart of Christianity—in the story of the Virgin Mary. That Jesus was born of a virgin is a fundamental narrative upon which all Christianity is based. It is one that is carried through to Islam, where the Quran holds Mary in great esteem.The implications of this have historically been devastating to women....Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ as a virgin, with no man ever having touched her. She is therefore described as pure, chaste, undefiled, innocent—being the product of an “immaculate conception” herself (as per Catholic doctrine), and now hosting God’s immaculate son in her unblemished womb.What does this mean for women who are touched by men? Are their conceptions corrupted? Are their characters and bodies now impure or unchaste? Have they been “defiled”?...Was all of Mary’s beauty, sanctity, chastity, and innocence confined to her vagina?Fetishizing Mary’s virginity—as Christians and Muslims both do—is a sickness that directly leads to a dangerous, unnatural glamorization of celibacy and sexual repression.”Excerpt From: Ali A. Rizvi. “The Atheist Muslim.” iBooks.
Ali A. Rizvi
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
Raheel Farooq
Will is intention favored by emotions.
Raheel Farooq
When the flow of a river is blocked, it overflows or breaks the barriers. Similarly, our emotions can get out of control if their expression is blocked.
Hina Hashmi
Our bodies are reflective of our inner feelings. If we feel emotionally or sexually vulnerable inside, we may build a protective layer of fat over our abdomen or hips, the places where we hold our emotions and sexuality.
Hina Hashmi
We allow ourselves to be blown by the winds because we do know what we want: our hearts know it, even if our thoughts are sometimes slow to follow- but in the end they do catch up with our hearts and then we think we have made a decision
Muhammad Asad
One mistake cannot justify another.
Raheel Farooq
For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.
Ednan Ali
Life is a journey from God to God.
Moosa Rahat
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.
Mohsin Hamid
The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to their own devices. Hence, they should not be left to their own devices, and should be allowed to govern only in consultation with the accredited representatives of the whole community, which is one of the classical lessons of history that no nation may neglect except at its own peril.
Muhammad Asad
It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away. Such an America had to be stopped in the interests not only of the rest of humanity, but also in your own.
Mohsin Hamid
Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.
Raheel Farooq
Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.
Raheel Farooq
Do not judge a man by where he stands, but how he reached there.
Raheel Farooq
Falsehood of a good man is better than truth of a bad one.
Raheel Farooq
Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
Raheel Farooq
The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.
Raheel Farooq
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
Nouman Ali Khan
Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions.
Raheel Farooq
One's ugly face and features may not be a problem. Conversely, one's such character displays, well a problem since no one tolerates it.
Ehsan Sehgal
One's character is key to its fate and future of life that how one executes and prosecutes it.
Ehsan Sehgal
The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others
Shahrukh Husain
I raise my voice not so that i can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard
Malala Yousafzai
My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations." - Jane Adams
Noorilhuda
I cannot imagine a sentence more severe than a person limited not by his or her own abilities but by the opinions and expectations of others. And having been made to organize in such a way, comes the remuneration, but no penance or escape.
Noorilhuda
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Positive, truthful and helping people always get rewards. Oneness, love, compassion and enlightenment can be attained by following the spiritual laws of the universe." -Hina Hashmi
Hina Hashmi
There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.
Noorilhuda