Top 36 Mohammed Hanif Quotes
#1. Don't be frightened of your own reflection. We all have bad moments in front of the mirror," says Noor. "You should probably get married. I have heard that a good husband is the only cure for bad dreams. You know why? Because then you are sleeping with you nightmare.
#2. Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.
#3. Now we must put our heads together and suck national security.
#4. Ingmar Bergman had a great sense of humor, and he had a very special, characteristic laugh that you always recognized - if he went to watch a theater show, 'Ah! He is here tonight.'
#5. Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
#6. The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
#7. He is an innocent in the way that lonesome canaries are innocent, flitting from one branch to another, the tender flutter of their wings and a few millilitres of blood keeping them airborne against the gravity of this world that wants to pull everyone down to its rotting surface.
#8. Now she has lived long enough to know that cutting up women is a sport older than cricket but just as popular and equally full of obscure rituals and intricate rules that everyone seems to know except her.
#9. If you're great, you can stay that way and people will believe in you, swear by you, turn the world upside down for you. But, if you're only partly great, or just a nobody, then what happens to you is lost. (Read by Henry Miller)
#10. Life has taught Alice Bhatti that every little step forward in life is preceded by a ritual humiliation. Every little happiness asks for a down payment. Too many humiliations and a journey that goes in circles means that her face is permanently in the red. She accepts that role. 'I'll do my best'.
#11. I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.
#12. He won't stop the war until you give him the peace prize.
#13. Basic military rule: you manage your anger by kicking ass, not by rearranging the furniture in your room.
#14. Keep On Keeping On with God
#15. The problem with you khakis is that you have started believing your own nonsense.
#16. Teddy accepts the challenge. 'It has bodies floating in it, and severed heads, bobbing up and down.' He realises that his dream doesn't sound very romantic. 'And some flowers also.
#17. Life doesn't imitate art ... it is art!
#18. life is a series of sweet coincidences
#19. There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
#20. What I love about photography, and it's the same thing I love about acting, really, is that it forces you, like, right into the moment, where you can't be distracted, where you can't be, like, thinking about other things or ahead of yourself or behind yourself.
#21. A professional who didn't miss his target even in his death. If your boss had half your sense of humour, this Pakiland of yours would be a much livelier place.
#22. Bind Merrimoth," he finally said, "and I'll do that think you like later."
"It's not like my power reacts to the reward system," I said, then added, "What thing?"
The corner of his mouth quirked. "On the chair."
"You mean the thing you like?"
"We both like," he corrected. "Win-win.
#23. Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
#24. It's futile to predict what love will make of you, but sometimes it brings you things you never knew you wanted.
#25. Shigri boy lost his marbles in the end but the plane General Zia is about to board has enough VX gas on it to wipe out a village.
#26. The gate, probably built to accommodate an elephant procession, opens slowly and reveals an abandoned city dreamed up by a doomed king.
#27. Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days.
#28. Friends are people one pretends to like in order to make life bearable.
#29. What's with books and soldiers? I wonder. The whole bloody army is turning into pansy intellectuals.
#30. Alice Bhatti walks the walk of someone who thinks they can overcome their fear by taking measured steps.
#31. Alice does not turn around, but only to stare at the judge, then she spits on the floor of the court and rushes out, two fat policewomen trying to keep pace with her.
#32. Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.
#33. Any man who reaches for a book when he thinks about you is a man that you should think about.
#34. But if I have once overcome my heart, and am contented through the grace of God in my heart, then this makes me content not only in one particular but in general, whatever befalls me.
#35. You want freedom and they give you chicken korma.
#36. She wants a surprise so big and so heavy it could flatten her in the middle of the road. She want a tied-to-a-rocket-and-launched-into-space kind of surprise.
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