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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a scrap of paper with a nail to account for the oranges she had sold as she could not read or write. I took a photo of her and vowed I would do everything in my power to help educate girls just like her. This was the war I was going to fight."
"But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day."
"The sense of alienation that inspires wonder, awe and fear in us is enough of a proof that life does not belong to the planet Earth."
"The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it."
"He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence."
"The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not - Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls' education and women's rights. So don't support Malala, support her campaign for girls' education and women's rights."
"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."
"Encouraging virtue is better than suppressing vice."
"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
"Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional."
"Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one."
"Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go."
"Man is slave of emotions when they arise, and master of them when they don't."
"Never congratulate a doctor for the fast recovery of a patient."
"His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls. The school that my father dreamed of would have desks and a library, computers, bright posters on the walls and, most important, washrooms."
"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."
"Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition."
"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
"I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated."
"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."
"Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament."
"The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience."
"Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice."
"What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way."
"I need to complete my homework on time."
"That which is worth telling is not worth having."
"We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other."
"Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace."
"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
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