Quotes by Pakistani Authors - Page 3

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older...
Mohsin Hamid
How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.
Nadeem Aslam
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.
Mohsin Hamid
A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But after worship, your prayers are for health, long life, wealth, and for the damsels and slaves of the Paradise. Ponder! Did you ever pray to God, ‘O’ God, I desire from Thee nothing but Thee’?
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi
Power is like prostitution and it could have pleasure for a while but it has to go to another man
Zaman Ali
There can only be two contexts of your life. Either you are the author of your life, or He (the Creator) is the author of your life. People who feel that their creation is the responsibility of the Creator, find opportunities unexpectedly. Those who feel that their lives are their own, have to fashion their own means.
Wasif Ali Wasif
On the canvas of life,with the brushes of goodness, love and passion, paint your randomness, dynamism & desire to show your "art of living" to the world.
raja shakeel mushtaque
...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.
Saadat Hasan Manto
Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer? ...Ruined is a strong word, I'd say....It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.
Mohsin Hamid
Love is the natural constitution of life. Its main clause; the sex and others such as respect, equality and tolerance are the essential terms to succeed the pleasure of life.
Ehsan Sehgal
After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
What is next to ecstasy?Pain.What is next to pain?Nothingness.What is next to nothingness?Hell .
Umera Ahmed
Humanity is about raising up each other for good.
Zaman Ali
But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.
Umair Naeem
My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah
Imran Khan
The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a good or an evil deed, his chances of repeating that kind of action increase and of doing its opposite proportionately decrease. With constant repetition of an evil or of a good action, it becomes almost impossible for a person to do the opposite, or even to think of it, so much so that while men's hearts become "sealed" and their eyes "blinded" if they do evil, their doing good produces such a state of mind that the devil himself can have no sway over it. Nevertheless, actions which create a psychological habit, however strong their influence may be, must not be construed as absolute determinants, for there is no "point of no return" for human behavior: genuine repentance (tauba) can turn an apparently wholly evil man into a paragon of virtue; on the other hand, although this is much more rare, an apparent paragon of virtue (even a prophet!) can turn into a near devil enmeshed in carnal pleasures .
Fazlur Rahman
The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.
Fazlur Rahman
You can't be a good manager if you are doing everything yourself.
Rehan Waris
When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.
Abdul Sattar Edhi
All those who love know exactly the limit they're prepared to go to. They know exactly what is required.
Nadeem Aslam
Investigation after declaration of submission leads astray.
Wasif Ali Wasif
History fondly remembers those who meet expectations but is written by a few who exceed them
Faisal Khosa
Be good on terms with everyone but only keep a few close.
Moosa Rahat
After dissolution of fears, your mind and emotions act in harmony to help you to make you a joyous soul. You don’t need to do extra efforts to get what you desire.
Hina Hashmi
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
Wasif Ali Wasif
Truth is what reconciles thought and experience.
Raheel Farooq
Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognise its limits!
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
Your thoughts exist. Whatever you have thought today, yesterday or many years back, it is energy and it exists. Your attention activates thoughts and it is strengthened with your repetition.
Hina Hashmi
One can be a Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim; it may have, somewhat value. However, if one fails, to be a human, all other qualities, become unimportant and collapse since all the religions execute humanity and love first for respect and empathy each other.
Ehsan Sehgal
For growing again, one has to fall apart and fall to bits.
raja shakeel mushtaque
There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures
Imran Khan
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
Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.
raja shakeel mushtaque
And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.
Mohsin Hamid
I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?
Noorilhuda
Money is not a problem, your poor mentality is.
Moosa Rahat
Emotions serve as our guiding system. They tell us what we feel about something. This indicates the degree of alignment with the source's energy.
Hina Hashmi
Ask and visualize for what your intuition has guided you for because visualization is the strongest tool for manifestation.
Hina Hashmi
When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
Malala Yousafzai
Don’t tell me you have OCD about this?”“OCD, ADHD—pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I’d have it.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
Even in recent times, the empirical evidence does not support the claim that trade liberalization or incentive neutrality leads to faster growth. It is true that higher manufacturing growth rates have been typically associated with higher export growth rates (mostly in countries where export and import shares to GDP grew), but there is no statistical relation between either of these growth rates or degree of trade restrictions. Rather, almost all of successful export-oriented growth has come with selective trade and industrialization policies. In this regard, stable exchange rates and national price levels seem to be considerably more important than import policy in producing successful export-oriented growth
Anwar Shaikh
Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice.
Raheel Farooq
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
Sabaa Tahir
I listen to my heart and mind when I plan the things, but I cannot support those, who do not listen to their heart and
Ehsan Sehgal
When you are close to divine and get guidance from the divine, life becomes easy. Intuition is where peace, magic and glory are.
Hina Hashmi
Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.
Shah Asad Rizvi
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Dont turn your face all the stars are out longing you.
Saqlain bin mushtaq
I saw on his face a glimpse of his past. The damage, the unhappiness and the pain, and I wondered what kind of skeletons he has been hiding and for how long. It’s one of those mutual attraction moments that are unexplainable, but as real as anything you’ve ever seen. Almost like my soul knows his soul.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
Conflicts stay in your mind with your permission.You allow them to.
Hina Hashmi
Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.
Raheel Farooq
Life is like a plate of chillies, what you do today might just burn your ass tomorrow!
Hazim Bangwar
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
Kamila Shamsie
Rage colors her every movement. Rage that has nothing to do with her so-called bodyguards and everything to do with me and her and the confusion rolling around inside the both of us. This should be interesting
Sabaa Tahir
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
For a Comfortable Journey of Life,Just Reduce the Luggage of Desires.
Ednan Ali
In a war of truth and lie, lie retreats always with shame and pity.
Ehsan Sehgal
Artist is not human, but humanity.
Raheel Farooq