Farooqi Quotes

#1. The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

Ray Brown

#2. The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.

Sid Grossman

#3. After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#4. I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.

Peter Sis

#5. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Edward Abbey

#6. Their casual discussion of the characteristics of the man who had shown interest in their mother had seemed unreal to her.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#7. One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom,
My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose.
When I inquired what had caused the blight,
"My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#8. I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Marilynne Robinson

#9. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#10. Wanted, a pretty lie, and they believed, because a pretty lie is easier to believe than an ugly truth.

Brom

#11. You always maintained that he was a good father, but I always told you and I'll say it again today, so what if he was a good father? How does that redeem him if he was a bad husband?

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#12. We learned about life from the books they told us not to read.

Antoinette Ingoldsby

#13. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#14. Noboby is succeeded by going astray from Allah

Salman Farooqi