Mirza Quotes & Sayings

Oh, Lord, it is not the sins I have committed that I regret, but those which I have had no opportunity to commit — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand. — Aisha Mirza

action!" "Roger, I've got visual on the target," whispered Mirza. "At least two of the Iranians are in the building." One of the old men drinking coffee gave him a strange look. — Jack Silkstone

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained ... Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor. — Shazia Mirza

When I go out on court, I don't care what I look like. I don't care if I'm out of my bed as long as I win the match, and that's what I'm there for. It doesn't matter what I'm wearing, it doesn't matter what I look, it doesn't matter what my hair feels like. All I feel is the moment I have to play well, give my 100% and win the match. — Sania Mirza

Since sorrow follows joy As autumn does the spring Man must transcend the joys Of earth, which sorrows bring. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders. — Randeep Hooda

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher. — Aisha Mirza

There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting ,there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs' graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders. — Mirza Waheed

Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess. — Aisha Mirza

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that's just, I think if you don't have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don't have self confidence, you won't have attitude, and I think there's a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance. — Sania Mirza

I haven't thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit. — Sania Mirza

Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting. — Sania Mirza

Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

If you could hear the angels pen your deeds... what would you be doing with your life? — Aisha Mirza

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days. — Sania Mirza

Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky! — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory. — Sania Mirza

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know. — Aisha Mirza

I have a passion for playing tennis and enjoy the workload and struggles of performing in this amazing global sport. — Sania Mirza

As I came to the lime light, the media asked me many questions. A lot many moral policing ... 'Wear this, wear that, why a T-shirt?' Everybody has the right to form their opinions, and I have the right to ignore them. — Sania Mirza

I Pray That A Tennis Player Should Emerge From Ranchi As MS Dhoni Emerged For Cricket — Sania Mirza

When I used to say I wanted to play at Wimbledon, they used to laugh in my face and say, 'What are you talking about, you're from Hyderabad, and you're supposed to ... cook.' That's one of the notions that people have in this side of the world - it is our 'culture', within quotes, you know, to say what a woman can or cannot do. — Sania Mirza

I don't think I'm old enough or experienced enough to give anyone any guidance. All I would like say is that as long as you're having fun, I think you're doing the right thing. — Sania Mirza

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed. — Sania Mirza

My biggest strength is that no one can read my forehand — Sania Mirza

I have learnt that once one lets go of all expectations, one can never be disappointed; everything then that comes one's way, will be an appreciated blessing. — Aisha Mirza

For me it is a matter of pride that I have been born in the age in the which Tendulkar is playing — Sania Mirza

Love knows no difference between life and death
The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to. — Sania Mirza

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons. — Aisha Mirza

Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies. — Sania Mirza

Lest we forget: It is easy to be human, very hard to be humane — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception. — Aisha Mirza

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes. — Sania Mirza

In Paradise it is true that I shall drink at dawn the pure wine mentioned in the Koran, but where in Paradise are the long walks with intoxicated friends in the night, or the drunken crowds shouting merrily? Where shall I find there the intoxication of Monsoon clouds? Where there is no Autumn how can Spring exist? If the beautiful houris are always there, where will be the sadness of a separation and the joy of union? Where shall we find there a girl who flees away when we would kiss her? — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Power and extremism can erect walls of hatred, but cannot win hearts — Mirza Masroor Ahmad

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing. — Sania Mirza

Spend time beautifying your soul, the rest will simply follow. — Aisha Mirza

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. — Aisha Mirza

The world is a playground -Indian — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I'm a Muslim and I'm really looking forward to my wedding day. I can't wait to meet my husband. — Shazia Mirza

My flaws and imperfections make me perfectly incomplete. — Aisha Mirza

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

The Jihad of this age is to strive in upholding the word of Islam, to refute the objections of the opponents, to propagate the excellences of the Islamic faith, and to proclaim the truth of the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, throughout the world. This is Jihad till God Almighty brings about other conditions in the world. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

I have always believed that my job is to try and give my best on the tennis courts. — Sania Mirza

Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student? — Sania Mirza

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India. — Sania Mirza

Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport! — Sania Mirza

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match. — Sania Mirza

To remind Muslims constantly of this grade their religion has been named Islam, which means to devote oneself wholly to God and to keep nothing back. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

In knowing you I, discovered my self. — Aisha Mirza

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self. — Aisha Mirza

I love salon days to pamper myself, do my nails. — Sania Mirza

He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do? — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality. — Sania Mirza

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't you play tennis in your summer holidays because you have nothing to do except swim for an hour or whatever?,' and that's how I started playing. — Sania Mirza

Not many people know, but my joints are extremely hypermobile, and that's why I'm more prone to injuries. That's why most of my major injuries were with the joints. I had a career-threatening wrist injury where picking up a fork to feed myself was a problem, and the thought of playing tennis again was so far from my mind. — Sania Mirza

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones. — Aisha Mirza

The heart stays heavy if it remains in a state of unforgiveness. — Aisha Mirza

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep. — Aisha Mirza

In the shade of words sits life itself. — Aisha Mirza

The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole. — Sania Mirza

The difference between me and Abolqader was that I spoke to my wife with refinement and he spoke to her coarsely and violently, I took a shower once a day and he took one once a month, I didn't even eat spring onions and he ate onions and garlic and radishes by the kilo, I read her poetry by Sa'di and he belched at her...and so in my wife's eyes I was stupid and he was clever, I was an idiot and he was intelligent. I was coarse and he was refined...But apparently he was a very good traveller.." Asadollah Mirza (from My Uncle Napoleon). — Iraj Pezeshkzad

This world is nothing but a trap. The only place where a man is safe and gets comfort is the secluded place of God. — Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. — Iskander Mirza

Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it — Mirza Masroor Ahmad

Love For All; Hatred for None — Mirza Nasir Ahmad

It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. — Aisha Mirza

Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle.
It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard. — Aisha Mirza

We don't really need great amounts of anything. We just need a little of something great. — Aisha Mirza

If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

You want to try and win as many slams as possible in your career. As a tennis player, that's what we always dream of as a kid, wanting to play slams, wanting to win them. — Sania Mirza

Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months. — Sania Mirza

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened. — Aisha Mirza

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things. — Sania Mirza

I love any kind of food. I don't have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem. — Sania Mirza

As a child I was always taking things apart. My idea was that I was 'fixing' things, but I guess I was breaking them really. — Haroon Mirza

I have learnt that no amount of darkness can mask even the slightest glimmer of light. Find your light and drive out the dark. — Aisha Mirza

For some reason, every time I peak in my career, I injure myself. So, I'm constantly on the comeback trail. — Sania Mirza

I really don't think about making fashion statements. Just like any other woman or girl, I like to dress up. I think I'm fortunate enough to be dressed by some of India's best designers and to have the opportunity to wear their wonderful creations. But I have never made a conscious effort to try and be a fashion icon or something. — Sania Mirza

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave. — Aisha Mirza

The dusk here does not arrive on the shoulders of golden sunsets any more, but on the heels of long, encroaching shadows of untraceable trees in the distance, gloomy parallel patterns that cascade over the undulating landscape of unevenly dispersed corpses and other things. — Mirza Waheed

If we have touched another's life with our action and through our words then we have lived. — Aisha Mirza

Thoughtful minds grow, from the sharpened awareness of those who have lived life; through love, curiosity and tragedy. — Aisha Mirza

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I'm not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day. — Sania Mirza

I'm not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films. — Sania Mirza

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now. — Sania Mirza

I miss singles terribly, but it is a choice I make because I don't feel I am good enough anymore. I don't want to be 100 odd in the world and still play for the heck of it. — Sania Mirza

Having high resilience does not mean it doesn't sometimes sting. — Aisha Mirza

Only the dead has seen th end of war — Mirza Tabish

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind. — Shazia Mirza