Quotes About Hamid

#1. Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Asif Ali Zardari

#2. Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Afghan President Hamid Karzai held wide-ranging talks in Kabul on Wednesay on the political and security situation in

Anonymous

#3. The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge. "I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

Brynn Kelly

#4. I do not think that less is necessarily more. But I don't think that more is necessarily more either. - Mohsin Hamid

Mohsin Hamid

#5. The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

Al-Ghazali

#6. When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#7. He ate off dirty plates and was unfazed. His pillowcase was soiled and stank, but he never thought of changing it. Hamid thought long and hard, but he couldn't understand him. He often asked, 'Babuji, why aren't you revolted by dirtiness?

Saadat Hasan Manto

#8. Do not have expectations. We humans are created imperfect, which means that we have flaws

Norhafsah Hamid

#9. One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

Mohsin Hamid

#10. There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity culture here, just as there is in London. But in Lahore, the celebrity scene doesn't drown out the rest quite so much.

Mohsin Hamid

#11. Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

Mohsin Hamid

#12. Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,

Mohsin Hamid

#13. Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#14. Check your heart and make sure your intention steers you in the right direction.

Norhafsah Hamid

#15. I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

Mohsin Hamid

#16. The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.

Mohsin Hamid

#17. Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.

Mohsin Hamid

#18. It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Mohsin Hamid

#19. The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.

Hamid Karzai

#20. My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Mohsin Hamid

#21. most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.

Mohsin Hamid

#22. I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

Mohsin Hamid

#23. You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

Mohsin Hamid

#24. How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

Mohsin Hamid

#25. I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.

Mohsin Hamid

#26. ... and time is the stuff of which a self is made.

Mohsin Hamid

#27. We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. The self we create is a fiction.

Mohsin Hamid

#28. Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

Mohsin Hamid

#29. Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Mohsin Hamid

#30. A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

Hamid Karzai

#31. No matter how far you go into the deep, you are always on the brink of another abyss.

Hamid Ismailov

#32. In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

#33. flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens.

Mohsin Hamid

#34. It was a summer of great rumblings in the belly of the earth, of atomic flatulence and geopolitical indigestion, consequences of the consumption of sectarian chickpeas by our famished and increasingly incontinent subcontinent.

Mohsin Hamid

#35. Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that - in my humble opinion - allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

Mohsin Hamid

#36. If it takes you seven years to write each novel, you need a patron. And I would rather have my corporate self as my patron than any arts council or bestower of grants.

Mohsin Hamid

#37. It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books ...

Mohsin Hamid

#38. If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.

Hamid Karzai

#39. Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

Hamid Karzai

#40. Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know.

Mohsin Hamid

#41. The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.

Hamid Karzai

#42. Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that ... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

Mohsin Hamid

#43. The end of the world can be cozy at times.

Mohsin Hamid

#44. Basically, asking me what kind of music I like is like asking what kind of food I like: 'Anything that tastes good,' is the answer. I'm the kind of guy who spends three times as much on his speakers as he does on his television.

Mohsin Hamid

#45. I think when we start to understand what masculinity and femininity is, then men won't fear so much the feminine side coming out. And the masculine side for women coming out won't be such a burden, in a way. Just be ourselves.

Hamid Drake

#46. stories of evil can be projected on them with as little difficulty as stories of good.

Mohsin Hamid

#47. Without being conscious of it, you have allowed yourself to become fond of him not for the content of his character but for the fidelity of his echo.

Mohsin Hamid

#48. There is no pride in a masculinst history that deprives half of humanity a pride of place, the dignity of who and what they are.

Hamid Dabashi

#49. What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older ...

Mohsin Hamid

#50. Darashikoh was inside, for all the world a tastefully dressed patron of the shop, but he carried death in his undershorts and hunger in his heart.

Mohsin Hamid

#51. I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

Hamid Karzai

#52. I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

Mohsin Hamid

#53. They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Hamid Karzai

#54. No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

Hamid Karzai

#55. Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

Mohsin Hamid

#56. The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'.
'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'.
'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Mohsin Hamid

#57. When people talk about the death of the novel, they are speaking of the need for the birth of something different.

Mohsin Hamid

#58. You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.

Mohsin Hamid

#59. The fruits of labor are delicious, but individually they're not particularly fattening. So don't share yours, and munch on those of others whenever you can.

Mohsin Hamid

#60. Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously ...

Mohsin Hamid

#61. Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

Mohsin Hamid

#62. Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of ... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Mohsin Hamid

#63. It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

Mohsin Hamid

#64. When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

Mohsin Hamid

#65. Hazrat Abu Darda'a said: He who thinks that to go at dawn in search of knowledge is not jihad is deficient in intellect.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#66. Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holding, black money and dodgy private equity investors, both foreign and Indian.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

#67. I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.

Hamid Karzai

#68. The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

Mohsin Hamid

#69. Afghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother

Hamid Karzai

#70. If we want people to accept us as we are, then we should accord the same courtesy to them

Norhafsah Hamid

#71. The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

Hamid Drake

#72. Trials or little tests contain lessons to be learnt.

Norhafsah Hamid

#73. I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

Mohsin Hamid

#74. but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed

Mohsin Hamid

#75. Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

Mohsin Hamid

#76. It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Mohsin Hamid

#77. Musicians are affected by the audience just as much as audiences are affected by the musicians. The only problem is that often times musicians won't allow themselves to admit to that fact.

Hamid Drake

#78. The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.

Hamid Dabashi

#79. What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight.

Mohsin Hamid

#80. I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.

Mohsin Hamid

#81. And with a last stardrop, a last circle, I arrive, and she's there, chemical wonder in her eyes.

Mohsin Hamid

#82. Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in ... you're exposed to people with more.

Mohsin Hamid

#83. Novel writing is solitary work.

Mohsin Hamid

#84. As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

Mohsin Hamid

#85. I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

#86. Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?

Mohsin Hamid

#87. She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I'd become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before.

Mohsin Hamid

#88. I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

Mohsin Hamid

#89. Like many of my friends in the Pakistani diaspora - and many of my friends in Pakistan itself, for that matter - I have sometimes looked at the country of my birth and wondered whether its future will be one of steady and sad decline.

Mohsin Hamid

#90. There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

Mohsin Hamid

#91. In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the

Mohsin Hamid

#92. Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Mohsin Hamid

#93. As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

Hamid Karzai

#94. Wealth and property are the servants of body which is the vehicle of soul of which the essence is knowledge and for which there is honor of soul.

Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali

#95. We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

#96. But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin.

Mohsin Hamid

#97. This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.

Hamid Karzai

#98. Didn't you tell me smoking ruined your stamina as a boxer?
...
Ruined is a strong word, I'd say.
...
It helps fight boredom. It gives you more to do and less time to do it in.

Mohsin Hamid

#99. Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent - admittedly in my own best interest - on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

Mohsin Hamid

#100. The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.

Hamid Karzai