Tribal Areas Quotes & Sayings

The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward the seem arrogant — Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody. — Kurt Vonnegut

To stop staring at you, I kept fiddling with the sugar until you stopped my hand with yours. — Daniel Handler

Terrorist groups will not, in most instances, openly recruit from universities or the well developed areas that politicians and business leaders are always focusing on. They will not flight newspaper or TV adverts, but will use belief systems riding on the back of disadvantages, poverty and problems that have remained unaddressed in particular communities, tribal and religious ideologies. They will recruit the most vulnerable to harm and attack the most vulnerable, in order to spite leaders and authorities. — Archibald Marwizi

The sinner prides himself on his independence, completely overlooking the fact that he is the weak slave of the sins that rule his members. — A.W. Tozer

organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones. — Patrick Lencioni

No, I don't tolerate pressure from anyone about anything. — Ashley Judd

All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind. — Milan Kundera

And, indeed, just as the most charming tune in the world becomes vulgar, intolerable, as soon as the general public is humming it, as soon as the street - organs have taken it up, the work for which charlatan art fanciers do not remain indifferent, the work which nitwits do not challenge, which is not satisfied with arousing the enthusiasm of the few, also becomes, by virtue of that very fact, corrupted, banal, almost repellent to the initiated. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. — William Cowper

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking. — Julie Delpy

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling — Seneca The Younger

British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire. — Eric Blehm

There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan. — Leon Panetta

I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight. — Harry Shum Jr.

This is Rome. Treachery and opportunism and backstabbing run in her veins like lifeblood, and if you've never had to live your life constantly looking over your shoulder, then you have no idea how dangerous it can be. — Lesley Livingston

My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. — Mamnoon Hussain

There was something in his manner of seduction, no show of desire at all; what he offered was a transaction, and again he showed no disappointment when reflexively and without hesitation I said no to him. It was the answer I had always given to such proposals (which are inevitable in the places I frequent), not out of any moral conviction but out of pride, a pride that had weakened in recent years, as I realized I was being shifted by the passage of time from one category of erotic object to another. — Garth Greenwell