Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 12

Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In that, it is the pursuit to end all pursuits.
Majid Kazmi
Successes are like milestones while excellence is a never-ending journey.
Majid Kazmi
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
No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
My mama told me If you're the smartest person in the room then you're in the wrong room.
Moosa Rahat
Worry looks back, Hope looks forward, but Faith always looks up.
Umair Naeem
The eyes and the sex understand and know every language without any distinction.
Ehsan Sehgal
Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Indeed, Allah does not like those who are proud and boastful.[Al-Qur'an Surah Nisa 4:36]
Asma Naqi
Love, endure, persist... Everything will return to you, innocent fool!
Raheel Farooq
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.
Muhammad Asad
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
The more you study, the more you know; how less you know.
Imran Khan
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
When you feel deep change in your heart, you must understand that there is a lack of an old and righteous company.
Moazzam Shaikh
he philosophy of Islam will be shown in terms of the modern philosophy, and if there are imperfections in the old ideas then they shall be removed. My task is merely constructive, and in this construction I shall take into consideration the best traditions of Islamic philosophy.
Muhammad Iqbal
Each subject perceives and instigates the violence within the philosophy of nonviolence since injustice, hatred and such conduct hold the feeling of violence, even changing the system, first, passes the violence before it prevails. Despite that, violence also exists, in one's thoughts, without exception; however, the question is not the violence, but self-control that demonstrates the peace, which approaches the victory and supremacy.
Ehsan Sehgal
Children are excellent judges of character, you know
Mohsin Hamid
We can choose the type of thoughts we repeat in our mind. Nothing can force us to pick any memory, circumstance or relationship without our permission.
Hina Hashmi
Hope is the damnedest of all feckless emotions.
Noorilhuda
Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.
Noorilhuda
The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.
Mohsin Hamid
I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.
Tehmina Durrani
There are no plans, just people fooling themselves by attempting to design their fates and futures. It makes them feel invincible, even if it’s for a transient period of time.
Kanza Javed
Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.
Hira Shahid Kazim
A successful father is not more successful than his children.
Raheel Farooq
The best standard of living will be attained when your house will be filled with God's blessings.
Moazzam Shaikh
Come on! Think of Miandad hitting that six off Sharma. If he could do that, you can do this.
Kamila Shamsie
The most coward person is the one who uses religion to win an argument.
Asma Naqi
You can't become a millionaire until you think like one.
Moosa Rahat
We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics.
Raheel Farooq
Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.
Zainab T. Khan
Why did you leave my hand? I’ve never felt so good, she thought. I felt good too, he thought.
Sara Naveed
Silence is not a reply. However, it shows a way of avoiding further discussion and critical questions and the escape from the reality or idiocy, since it is a personal diplomacy.
Ehsan Sehgal
Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
Parwez Musharraf
Violence is the result of hatred & greed conquering the heart of lesser souls.
Rehan Waris
An enemy of today is a friend of tomorrow
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Only beards can't make you count as a man, you need to have respect for women in your heart for that.
Moosa Rahat
Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.
Raheel Farooq
We talk what we think but do what we believe.
Raheel Farooq
The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'.'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.
Mohsin Hamid
It's a trick question, Aquilla. A Mask is not made. She is remade. First she is destroyed. Stripped down to the trembling child that lives at her core. It doesn't matter how strong she thinks she is. Blackcliff diminishes, humiliates, and humbles her." "But if she survives, she is reborn. She rises from the shadow world of failure and despair so that she might become as fearful as that which destroyed her. So that she might know darkness and use it as her scim and shield in her mission to serve the Empire.
Sabaa Tahir
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
The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
The Universe is like a loving parent who wants us to have everything we need. Claim your power and be prosperous.
Hina Hashmi
The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.
Noorilhuda
The problem with human race is not that it errs, but that it does so repetitively.
Raheel Farooq
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
But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.
Malala Yousafzai
Living in this city, you developed a certain relationship with violence and news of violence: you expected it, dreaded it, and then when it happened, you worked hard to look away from it, because there was nothing you could do about it - not even grieve, because you knew that it would happen again and maybe in a way that was worse than before. Grieving is possible only when you know you have come to an end, when there is nothing more to follow. This city was full of bottled-up grief.
Bilal Tanweer
We match each other stroke for stroke until I get a hit on her right arm. She tries to switch sword arms, but I jab my scim at her wrist faster than she can parry. Her scim goes flying, and I tackle her. Her white-blonde hair tumbles free of her bun.“Surrender!” I pin her down at the wrists, but she trashes and rips one arm free, scrabbling for a dagger at her waist. Steel stabs at my ribs, and seconds later, I am on my back with a blade at my throat.“Ha!” She leans down, her hair falling around us like a shimmering silver curtain.
Sabaa Tahir
If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.
Raheel Farooq
We can attract almost anything by using our imagination. All we need to do is to hold the picture of desires/dreams in our mind and focus on it as it blends with emotions that are of higher vibrations.
Hina Hashmi
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
Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
Raheel Farooq
The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled
Muhammad Iqbal
Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.
Sabaa Tahir
The Average Occidental- be he a democrat or a Fascist, a Capitalist or a Bolshevik, a manual worker or an intellectual- knows only one positive "religion", and that is the worship of material progress, the belief that there is no other goal in life than to make that very life continually easier or, as the current expression goes, "independent of nature". The temples of this "religion" are the gigantic factories, cinemas, chemical laboratories, dancing halls, hydro- electric works; and its priests are bankers, engineers,film stars, captains of industry, record-airmen. The unavoidable result of this craving after power and pleasure is the creation of hostile groups armed to the teeth and determined to destroy each other whenever their respective interests come to clash. And on the cultural side the result is the creation of a human type whose morality is confined to the question of practical utility alone, and whose highest criterion of good and evil is material progress.
Muhammad Asad
The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up
Abdul Sattar Edhi
It would be a remarkable life, if we live it in the same manner as we do once we find out we do not have much to live
Faisal Khosa
This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.
Kamila Shamsie