Mian Quotes & Sayings

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. — Michael Pollan

We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them. — Peter Drucker

Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels. — Nina Ardianti

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. — Carol Burnett

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

Now, with the Transparency Act, the government has set out to reveal wrongdoing by chiefs, not the Department. There is nothing wrong with the act except the context, the attitude and the political purpose. — John Ralston Saul

Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: 'If you're not married by the time you're twenty-five, you'll have good reason to be ashamed'; 'if you laugh, you won't look dignified' ; 'if your face betrays your feelings, you'll look coarse'; 'if you mention the existence of a single body hair, you're repulsive' ; 'if a boy kisses you on the cheek in public, you're a whore'; if you enjoy eating, you're a pig'; 'if you take pleasure in sleeping, you're no better than a cow'; and so on.

These precepts would be merely anecdotal if they weren't taken so much to heart. — Amelie Nothomb

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

I just used a very simple way to explain what are deep ideas, and why can't that be literature? — Mian Mian

Banks need to have large shareholders on the board that have a direct interest in their performance. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

It hungers, always.
It takes shape after shape as its own, and each body it puts on is as hungry as the last. — Adam Slater

I realized early on, maybe better than some of my competitors did, that a textile business can run only if you have scale. I decided to horizontally and vertically integrate, adding everything from spinning, dyeing, weaving, and stitching to processing and packing. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

The blue whale was so magnificent and her song so beautiful, that Becca's heart swelled. She felt Marco's hand tighten on hers and knew he felt the same way. She turned to him, but Marco wasn't looking at the whale anymore, he was looking at her. He was still holding her hand and was floating close to her now. — Jennifer Donnelly

I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead friends, friends in prison, friends who are prostitutes, on drugs, drunk, married to shitty men. I write because I need to write, to make sense of life. Honesty is everything to me. — Mian Mian

They keep telling me the coolest people are crazy - so I'm not worried. — Zanib Mian

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

I am a very big proponent of opening the borders with India. Most of our trade is done through unofficial channels. Why not open the trade? — Mian Muhammad Mansha

When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand. — George R R Martin

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance. — Eckhart Tolle

I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace. — Nelly Sachs

The future of the world will belong to whoever can harness energy and food. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful — Mian Mian

Because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it. — Mian Mian

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family. — Edward Norton

Don't ever run away from your problems. Chase after them like a crazy person till they're too afraid to come near you again. — Zanib Mian

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh

There's always been an element of 'right time, right place' to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock '94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, 'I don't know how we did this, but somehow we've touched a nerve.' — Trent Reznor

Does the Chinese national behind the Ban Mian counter, who holds a two-year work permit, appreciate the National Day songs that he has been listening to day in and day out for the past few months? I have a feeling that he is homesick to the bones and longs to be reunited with his family and loved ones back in Heilongjiang. He cannot wait for his son to grow up so that he himself can return to the peace and tranquility of his beloved village. In the meantime, he will bear the hardship and loneliness of staying in a foreign land. — Jim Tan

Music is a continual learning process. One finds new insights all the time. For me, it began at a very early age; from the beginning, there was something besides the notes. — Joshua Bell

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

He said, I like girls from broken homes who are crazy about chocolate and who love the rain. I've been waiting for a girl like that for a long time. — Mian Mian

confusion is the mian cause of worry — Dale Carnegie

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread. — Adlai E. Stevenson

The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody. — Mian Muhammad Mansha