Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 11

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
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
Mohsin Hamid
We Pashtuns love shoes but don't love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and this is the reason so many of them joined the Taliban—to finally achieve status and power.
Malala Yousafzai
This was different, spontaneous, unrestricted. This was what dancing was supposed to feel like - like freedom.
Anam Iqbal
You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.
Moveena Rasheed
Sufis are keys to open up hearts.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Gather up all your scattered dreams and build the life you love.
Moosa Rahat
When you want something to move out of your life, don't focus on it. Give attention to what you want.
Hina Hashmi
Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness.
Asma Naqi
I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.
Mohsin Hamid
There I find an Ark torn asunder and a Vicegerent over Yonder
saqib abraham
Wonderful things happen due to positive beliefs and good karma. Change your mind set to earn good karma and to make your life beautiful.
Hina Hashmi
It's not that people don't know when they'll die. It's that they don't seem to know they'll die.
Raheel Farooq
...my mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.
Tehmina Durrani
But show me just this one thing, my darling, i seek a heart stained like a poppy flower.
Fatima Bhutto
Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered.
Raheel Farooq
Conscience unlike a beard does not grow overnight, you have it or you don't
Faisal Khosa
I grow weary of the loveThat lasts for a nightWhen it should be thereThe next sunrise
Irum Zahra
the Qur’ān appears to be interested in three types knowledge for man. One is the knowledge of nature which has been made subservient to man, i.e., the physical sciences. The second crucial type is the knowledge of history (and geography): the Qur’ān persistently asks man to "travel on the earth" and see for himself what happened to bygone civilizations and why they rose and fell. The third is the knowledge of man himself.
Fazlur Rahman
the kind peopleare running this worldthey don't know how their one little smile has saved many lives
Noor Unnahar
Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.
Raheel Farooq
God is just a name for our wonder.
Nadeem Aslam
The principle of God is every human created for the help of other human to survive the journey of life but the principle of God gonna wrong way, as now human are the main cause of destruction of other human.
Arbab Jehangir
Don't let the urge to everyday, blindfold you to ultimately loose in life.
Faisal Khosa
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
Every single experience enriches the soul, like sun and water to the soil, depends how you make most of it.
raja shakeel mushtaque
The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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
In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition.
Raheel Farooq
Mostly the beauty has the dangerous, suspicious, untrusting, and even vanity waves in it, and that indeed, prevail too.
Ehsan Sehgal
Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.
Raheel Farooq
People will give away almost anything in charity, but their unadulterated attention must be earned
Faisal Khosa
We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.
Malala Yousafzai
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.
Imran Khan
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
Sabaa Tahir
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain
Mohsin Hamid
Rules are where there is a lack. They are to make up the deficiency, explicit or implicit. The system of existence, being complete in itself, is in no need to follow any of them. The appearance of disorder---or even order, in contrast---is when we observe something as a detached entity. Taken as a whole, the Universe is absolute, nothing being lacking, insignificant, or improvable. So, any such thing as a Theory of Everything (TOE) is a mere chimera.
Raheel Farooq
Love is an involuntary gift that manifests unplanned.
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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
The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes
saqib abraham
To stop being a victim, you have to stop thinking like a victim.
Asma Naqi
If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right.
Asim kayani
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.
Malala Yousafzai
If you really want to do, be or have anything, then first destroy your greatest enemy 'doubt’. The manifestation of your desire is directly proportional to how much you believe.
Hina Hashmi
You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.
Saadat Hasan Manto
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
People who are buried leaveBehind their memories.People feel sad for them andWorry, but for the living man,They are never sorry.This person, who is the sufferer,Will never be able to withstand,The chances snatched from him,He thinks, “Am I under a ban?”So he dies, and the world isForever in debtFor the man who facedDeath before his death.
Umera Ahmed
I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.
Sara Naveed
Children are prophets of nature.
Raheel Farooq
While you numb, nuts are chasing pokemons, I'll be chasing the money.
Moosa Rahat
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
Trust is the fragrance of your life breathing, if you lose it, your life journey is going to fruitless; you are living just to live as worthless.
Ehsan Sehgal
I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
May the bridges I burn light the way
Moosa Rahat
They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us.
Kamila Shamsie
Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.
Shah Asad Rizvi