Quotes About Husain

#1. If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires ... then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.

Charles Dickens

#2. The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

Thomas Carlyle

#3. Everyone is Annawadi talks like this- oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, "What a navigator I am!" And then the wind blows you east. -ABDUL'S FATHER, KARAM HUSAIN

Katherine Boo

#4. Avoid trouble. This was the operating principle of Abdul Hakim Husain, an idea so fiercely held that it seemed imprinted on his physical form.

Katherine Boo

#5. The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

Steven Pinker

#6. It's often the hardest things that turn out to be the best.

Deb Fitzpatrick

#7. Theocracy in the West is a kingdom of God where authority vests in specially ordained priests who exercise it on behalf of God. This is not the conception of Islam. Islam has no priesthood and, therefore no special agents of God to administer the law which expresses His will.

Ishtiaq Husain Qureshi

#8. They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

M. F. Husain

#9. Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

M. F. Husain

#10. All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

M. F. Husain

#11. I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

M. F. Husain

#12. I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

M. F. Husain

#13. I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

Shahrukh Husain

#14. Sharif gave instructions to his staff regarding snacks he wanted served to all of us - Sharif often asked for specific food items during meetings, as if it helped him concentrate his mind.

Husain Haqqani

#15. I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.

M. F. Husain

#16. I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

George Carlin

#17. If the sweat and blood of all faiths seeped into the same soil, then a synthesis must take root

Shahrukh Husain

#18. Never before have there been so many people capable of making a profound difference and yet never have there been so many temptations to behave otherwise.

A. Darius Husain

#19. One has to walk through the fields of knowledge to pick its flowers. Run, and you will miss the best blossoms.

Miyuki Miyabe

#20. There are many Israelis who live abroad and love the country.

Beny Steinmetz

#21. India is my motherland.

M. F. Husain

#22. I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

M. F. Husain

#23. I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

M. F. Husain

#24. The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others

Shahrukh Husain

#25. Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

M. F. Husain

#26. Wherever I find love I will accept it.

M. F. Husain

#27. The focus should be on Indian atrocities in Kashmir, not on our support for the Kashmiri resistance.

Husain Haqqani

#28. There are no supermoms. Eventually, you just have to hope your kid survives all your parental screw-ups.

Roxanne Snopek

#29. Throughout the Arab and Islamic world the feeling is that we are now in top gear for a war of civilizations, a clash of civilizations. Support for the United States is very low and there are no voices within the Muslim world, except for a very few.

Husain Haqqani

#30. I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

M. F. Husain

#31. Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.

Shahrukh Husain

#32. I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

M. F. Husain