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Quotes by Pakistani Authors

"With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve."

"Words, without power, is mere philosophy."

"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."

"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."

"Determinism gives you the freedom to do whatever you like."

"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election."

"Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?"

"If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact."

"Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself."

"Everyone is the right person for the right person."

"A successful father is not more successful than his children."

"Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do."

"I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big."

"World is so full of idiots that you can't even imagine to escape. The only solution is isolation. But it still spares one!"

"We must tell girls their voices are important."

"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."

"Conquer yourself, the world is you!"

"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."

"It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails."

"The team that is going to win is the one that does its homework the best by studying its opponents."

"Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.'"

"The concept of Free Will makes no sense unless associated, somehow or the other, with Absolute Determinism; it is just as a man cannot walk without gravity arresting and spurring his pace simultaneously."

"Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart."

"What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law."

"Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional."

"Misunderstanding is generally simpler than true understanding, and hence has more potential for popularity."

"The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!"

"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."

"But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them."

"Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit."

"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."


"I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred."

"Truth can conquer but only beauty can rule."

"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
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