Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 15

Secrets make life more interesting. You can be in a crowded room with someone and touch them without touching, just with a look, because they know a part of you no one else knows. And whenever you're with them, the two of you are alone, because the you they see no one else can.
Mohsin Hamid
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory.
Raheel Farooq
History proves beyond any possibility of doubt that no religion has ever given a stimulus to scientific progress comparable to that of Islam. The encouragement which learning and scientific research received from Islamic theology resulted in the splendid cultural achievements in the days of the Umayyads and Abbasids and the Arab rule in Sicily and Spain. I do not mention this in order that we might boast of those glorious memories at a time when the Islamic world has forsaken its own traditions and reverted to spiritual blindness and intellectual poverty. We have no right, in our present misery, to boast of past glories. But we must realize that it was the negligence of the Muslims and not any deficiency in the teachings of Islam that caused our present decay. Islam has never been a barrier to progress and science. It appreciates the intellectual activities of man to such a degree as to place him above the angels. No other religion ever went so far in asserting the dominance of reason and, consequently, of learning, above all other manifestations of human life.
Muhammad Asad
Learning is experiential! The more I experience the more I learn. I love this interdependent process!
Hira Shahid Kazim
Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like.
Raheel Farooq
There comes a time in everyone’s life—and I do mean in everyone’s life—when you ask yourself what it is that you’ve been doing with your life. Sometimes you even realize that whatever you’ve been doing all your life, you’ve been doing it wrong. Dead wrong… Son, you want that realization to hit you when you’re 70? Or 50? Or when you’re still young, with your whole life still ahead of you?
Ali Sheikh
Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one’s happiness could hurt many others.
Zaman Ali
There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.
Kamila Shamsie
Desire is a great virtue, but expectation is an even greater vice.
Raheel Farooq
The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.
Fazlur Rahman
When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.
Saadat Hasan Manto
We attract vibrations which are in harmony with the dominating vibrations of their mind.
Hina Hashmi
When you fondle meWith your feathery hands,Then…! I feelThe cabal’s of fireflyCreep into my soul
Rehmat Changaizi
The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.
Raheel Farooq
Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.
Raheel Farooq
You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.
Ali Sheikh
There is nothing right or wrong in love. Where there is love, then there is nothing but only love.
Sara Naveed
Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?
Sabaa Tahir
Never forget that each woman is, as a hole in a pocket, which no one can repair, and close that.
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
Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.
Noorilhuda
Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet.
Mohsin Hamid
Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.
Sabaa Tahir
Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.
Wasif Ali Wasif
But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slain by bombs, bullets, cannons, and drones. America's 9/11 has given way to Pakistan's 24/7/365. The battlefield has been displaced. And in Pakistan it is much more bloody.
Mohsin Hamid
The administration, whether it is small or large, it is, as a company or a state, it is with uniform or not. If the ignorant, immoral, loose-lips, uncultured and without etiquette, opportunistic, liar, mentality vain, dishonest and unfair people are there, I am just sure of it that the destination is the destruction, chaos, slavery and hatred.
Ehsan Sehgal
I am not a Books warm, but I like Books too much.
Aqeel Rafique
That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.
Raheel Farooq
Holy Prophet PBUH promulgated a justice system regardless of status of people, yet in Pak the powerful easily escapes.
Imran Khan
Pain halts you sometimes to take a moment and potentiate yourself again, pain breaks you sometimes to shed what is faulty in yourself!Pain has a meaning for those who search the answers
raja shakeel mushtaque
Don't dream to lead the people while you can't care, even about your neighbours.
Ehsan Sehgal
Stars are howling see moon is caught on fire.
Saqlain bin mushtaq
Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Even in death, her mother was winning.
Noorilhuda
In the bosom of success lie not delights but deprivations
Wasif Ali Wasif
Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.
Shah Asad Rizvi
The most brutal avenger on earth is a reality you ignored, however minor.
Raheel Farooq
To the people of EarthI see mercy in my lovers eyesI feel Heaven in her armsAnd i have found God dwells in her soul When i watch the full MoonThe moon mimics and whisper her name
saqib abraham
The first time is always the hardest
Sarwat Chadda
Do not destroy anybody’s peace. You will find peace.
Wasif Ali Wasif
So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich.
Mohsin Hamid
What’s good for individual could be bad for society but what’s good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual.
Zaman Ali
Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. When you see it closing in like a Martial death squad, you harden your insides. You prepare for the agony of a shredded heart. And when it hits, it hurts, but not as badly, because you have locked away your weakness, and all that’s left is anger and strength.
Sabaa Tahir
I'll fall.''You wont fall.''I'll fall. I'll fall and I'll die.'As I said it, I could see it happening. The foot stepping on air, pulling the rest of my body with it, tree limbs breaking as I plummeted down. 'No,' he said, his voice assured, 'You'd never do that to me.
Kamila Shamsie
The ladder of success is there waiting for you... you just have to realize it and reach towards and climb as high as you can you will surely be successful.
Noor Ahmad
If you experience any emotion like frustration, hesitation or anger, while planning your dream life , means you need to clear some mental blocks.
Hina Hashmi
Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule.
Raheel Farooq
One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
Al-Hafiz B.A. Masri
One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies
Kanza Javed
If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.
Kamila Shamsie
The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.
Wasif Ali Wasif
I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’But then I said, ‘If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.’Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.
Malala Yousafzai
It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would never be easy to findsolitude . . . to find herself. Not in this city, where appearances were everything; where emptiness filled luxurious landscapes till there was nothing but hollow splendor…She hated the pretense.More than hatred, she was frightened of it.
Umair Naeem
It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.
Sabaa Tahir
One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.
Hina Hashmi
The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.
Raheel Farooq
Khird-Mandon Se Kya Puchon Ke Meri Ibtida Kya HaiKe Main Iss Fikar Mein Rehta Hun, Meri Intiha Kya HaiWhat should I ask the sages about my origin:I am always wanting to know my goal.
Muhammad Iqbal