Ismat Quotes

#1. Ismat Chugti has been my inspiration, for her patriarchy submerged, womencentric stories. I see and think of women as they would want to be and not how we have been formularized in imaginations." (interview in Beyond Sindh, a HongKong based Sindhi magazine).

Kusum Choppra

#2. A rich by money is one who gives poor charity but a rich by heart is the one who gives poor their share

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#3. As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

Mark Helprin

#4. Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Jonathan Swift

#5. Saying that you religion is better than other religions is similar to saying that your mother is great but other mothers are characterless.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#6. Suffice to say that the TG2, Germ pre and EQ, and TG1 are there anytime I track drums, TG2 for guitars and the LTD-1 is there whenever I do vocals!

Billy Bush

#7. I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Terence McKenna

#8. The best day was when we got bin Laden.

Michael Mullen

#9. Love a person so much that the person's happiness becomes the source of your happiness, not the person's presence in your life.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#10. I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.

Chad Lindberg

#11. Worrying, Potter! Don't stand there and look so unhappy! If we lose, we win, and if we win, we win! Everything is good!

Donna Tartt

#12. There's a general hate in the hearts of men. You went to war, Gil, you should know that better than anyone. It's like the heat of the sun. Men like Kaad are just the focal figures, like lenses to gather the sun's rays on kindling. You can smash a lens, but that won't put out the sun.

Richard K. Morgan

#13. Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Victor Papanek

#14. If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

Plato

#15. Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#16. On who reasons with others gets influenced but one who reasons with himself gets awakened.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#17. Great quotes do not come from great people. They come from ordinary people who think differently.

Ismat Ahmed Shaikh

#18. Be courageous to listen to what you don't want to hear and have the guts to be innovative.

Pearl Zhu