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Quotes by Pakistani Authors
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."
"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."
"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are."
"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."
"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."
"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents."
"We must tell girls their voices are important."
"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."
"But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day."
"The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it."
"That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent."
"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"
"I want to make this world perfect."
"But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money."
"I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services."
"I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year."
"Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan."
"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."
"If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact."
"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
"No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men."
"Predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go."
"Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy."
"Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations."
"Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition."
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