Tabish Quotes & Sayings

Yes, there were thousands of women like them. Yes, they were Muslims. No, they did not think Allah would punish them. No, she was not afraid of what Daesh might do. Yes, that is what she would call them - Daesh - whether they liked it or not. Wasn't she afraid of the violence men can do to women? Yes, she was - where is the woman who isn't - but what sort of man, who takes the name of God, would even speak of such things? — Tabish Khair

I like the comfort in knowing that women are the only future in rock and roll. — Kurt Cobain

Between loving friends there need be no secrets ... the trusting heart is always safe with another who truly cares. — Joan Walsh Anglund

Were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is. — Jon Meacham

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

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen. — Khalil Gibran

Millions of microscopic fragments of Julia now lay, invisibly, on the speckled beige linoleum tiles of the classroom floor. What was left in her chair was a phantom of Julia, which she learned to project at these moments, by sheer force of will, until she could resemble herself, a process that would take days, even weeks, and was never entirely successful. — Suzanne Berne

What you can believe with your heart is your truth. — Debasish Mridha

Reason is not a tyrannical God like Allah, or a bloodthirsty demon like Bhowanee; Reason does not speak in my ears but gives me ears to listen with. — Tabish Khair

Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise. — Euripides

When a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered. — James Vila Blake

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college. — John Stossel