Haq Quotes & Sayings

First of all, let me give my comments on the blasphemy law. This law was introduced by the military dictator General Ziaul Haq. No one demanded the blasphemy law in Pakistan. But he wanted to give protection to his undemocratic rule, dictatorship, by using religion. So Pakistan came into being in 1947, and from 1947 until 1986 no case against any minorities was registered under the protection of the blasphemy law. Nobody from minorities was killed and no act of violence happened [against them]. — Shahbaz Bhatti

I want to make sure that everyone knows, God has been my greatest quarterback and I've caught a lot more than 84 touchdowns with Him! — Tommy McDonald

I am an average player, but even the great players don't have an average of 42, with a strike-rate of 75. — Misbah-ul-Haq

During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything. — Peter Tomsen

Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood. — Nelson DeMille

When the goal seems difficult to reach, take a break but never give up. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People are the real wealth of a nation. — Mahbub Ul Haq

The absence of someone comes like a new season, first only in pieces: you see the absence in them long before they leave. — Gerard Donovan

In Pakistan both branches [of the Ahmadis] fell to persecutions, sanction by the state in 1984 with General Zia Ul-Haq's Ordinance XX, which forbade Ahmadis of either branch from calling themselves Muslims, their religion Islam, or their temples mosques. Under penalty of law, they could not perform the call to pryaer, pray in the manner of Muslims, quote the Qur'an or hadith, greet each other with "as-salamu alaikum," or receite the shahadah ... In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, it was illegal for some people to say, "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger. — Michael Muhammad Knight

What is a constitution? It is a booklet with twelve or ten pages. I can tear them away and say that tomorrow we shall live under a different system. Today, the people will follow wherever I lead. All the politicians including the once mighty Mr. Bhutto will follow me with tails wagging. — Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

But when General Ziaul Haq introduced the strict blasphemy - 295 A, B, C - of Pakistan's penal code, then from 1986 to today there are hundreds cases that are registered under the protection of blasphemy law. And until today, no case against any minorities, and especially Christians, is proved in the higher court. The lower court would order punishment but the higher court would always acquit people. So it proves that this law is being used as a tool of victimization against minorities and innocent people of Pakistan. — Shahbaz Bhatti

But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do. — Bernie Sanders

The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth. — Mahbub Ul Haq

Call me 'Tuk-Tuk', and keep saying it, but remember I am the captain of Pakistan. — Misbah-ul-Haq

Once you make a journey to a near impossible destination, you get to realize how everything and anything is possible — Luthfy Es-Haq

A Silent Cry Doesn't Have Any Single Drop of Tear — Rahman Mostafiz

Everyone remember's the last shot of World T20 2007, but forget who brought the match to the last over. — Misbah-ul-Haq

I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. — Dennis Miller

I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood. — Hugh Hendry

It is very easy to point fingers at others sitting at home, but very difficult to play the game. — Misbah-ul-Haq

I have a Kindle, but I don't like it very much. I like a book. — Ruth Rendell

I look my victims in the eyes before I take their lunch money. — Steve Smith, Sr.

They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me. — Patrick Rothfuss

With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face. — Nadeem Farooq Paracha

The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That notion only made sense if you had a strong man willing to step up and get things done, and between Dad's gimp, Buster's elaborate excuses, and Apache's tendency to disappear, it was often up to me to keep the place from falling apart. But even when everyone was pitching in, we never got out from under all the work. I loved that ranch, though sometimes it did seem that instead of us owning the place, the place owned us. — Jeannette Walls

Passion is the soul of intensity. The speaker who truly loves God may or may not lead others to believe it, but the speaker who doesn't is only a philosopher whose ideas are too bland to be important. — Calvin Miller

In the last analysis, human security means a child who did not die, a disease that did not spread, an ethnic tension that did not explode, a dissident who was not silenced, a human spirit that was not crushed. — Mahbub Ul Haq

There is only one real burden of life: The Death. All other burdens can always be handled! — Mehmet Murat Ildan