Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 10

Books have the power to create, destroy or change civilization.
Zaman Ali
Each thinking mind is a political mind
Zaman Ali
Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc.
Hina Hashmi
You see the world in colors,I see in Black and Red.
Irum Zahra
A dreamless sleep and a life without ambition are synonymous with death.
Faisal Khosa
Religion and philosophy have different logics, speak different languages. Their logics are mutually exclusive, languages sometimes overlapping. It is hard to find something really common in them. I think I---a man in totally unconditional pursuit of happiness, whatever it is, wherever it lies---am only supposed to consider which of them has more in common with life!
Raheel Farooq
One only knows the sins of democracy against virtue when one is worthy enough to suffer from them.
Raheel Farooq
Doubt is one of the most dangerous negative vibrations and can ruin the materialization process.
Hina Hashmi
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
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
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
Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.
Malala Yousafzai
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
Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.
Saadat Hasan Manto
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
Mohsin Hamid
A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.
Raheel Farooq
Most people just ‘hope’ to meet their targets, while few have clear and strong intention hence they achieve it.
Hina Hashmi
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
Silence and Patience stop many wars
Fozia Malik
With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.
Nadeem Farooq Paracha
There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.
Raheel Farooq
Life is a race for those who want success and journey for those who want to live their dreams.
Asim Khan
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
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
Dreaming of a luxurious life and to be rich is very good. You must put all your efforts but it will happen at a certain time in your life because it depends upon your readiness, the beliefs you hold and the choices you make to achieve it.
Hina Hashmi
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
Malala Yousafzai
If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.
Nouman Ali Khan
people who ran away are friends!
Bilal Tanweer
Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride.
Raheel Farooq
He won’t stop the war until you give him the peace prize.
Mohammed Hanif
Human ideologies are based on human believe and acceptance of one ideology by all human is not possible as long as each human could find answers about his existence by his own mind.
Zaman Ali
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
Individualistic people die on the great curves
saqib abraham
Limit not to only five, when the divine gifts the supreme sixth; the sense of dance
Shah Asad Rizvi
In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.
Mohsin Hamid
When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.
Hina Hashmi
Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.
Raheel Farooq
That which is worth telling is not worth having.
Raheel Farooq
You want freedom and they give you chicken korma.
Mohammed Hanif
Yes, I know everything can disappear in a flash of light. That doesn’t make anything less valuable.
Kamila Shamsie
When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.
Imran Bughio
The only way to do great work is to just do it!
Wali Zahid
We are all migrants through time.
Mohsin Hamid
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
If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all
Mohsin Hamid
It is not, how one thinks. Indeed, it is, how one executes that.
Ehsan Sehgal
Gossip is not adopted by the bored. It is an art of discourse adopted by those who have experienced absolutely nothing thrilling in their lives; they have never really fallen in love or casually spoken to a complete stranger, and they never dreamt of doing anything extraordinary. They are a group of people with dull lives and souls.
Kanza Javed
Love is about the good moments, but it's about holding on to each other during the difficult ones, too. Coming out on the other side, weathered but still holding hands, isn't easy. It's the most difficult thing there can possibly be, but I know now it's the truest test of love there is.
Aisha Saeed
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Malala Yousafzai
If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.
Raheel Farooq
From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life
Muhammad Iqbal
It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.
Intisar Khanani
Bijli fails in the dead of night / Won’t help to call “I need a light” / You’re in Karachi now / Oh, oh you’re in Karachi now. / Night is falling and you just cant see / Is this illusion or KESC / You’re in Karachi now
Kamila Shamsie
Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World's Club bouncers at Immigration, getting into a massive cab that didn't have a moment to waste, and falling in love as soon as we shot onto the bridge and I saw Manhattan rise up through the looks of parental terror reflected in the window. I lost my virginity in New York, twice (the second one wanted to believe he was the first so badly). I had my mind blown open by the combination of a liberal arts education and a drug-popping international crowd. I became tough. I had fun. I learned so much.But now New York was starting to feel empty, a great party that had gone on too long and was showing no sign of ending soon. I had a headache, and I was tired. I'd danced enough. I wanted a quiet conversation with someone who knew what load-shedding was.
Mohsin Hamid
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
The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you.
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
Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't.
Raheel Farooq