Quotes About Karbala

#1. As Yazid, the tyrant of Karbala, never suffered even from a headache, people believed that he was blessed by Allah. But that was a misinterpretation. In reality, Allah had abandoned him completely. He wanted nothing to do with him.

Tehmina Durrani

#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. The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared.

William Muir

#4. We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.

Nizar Qabbani

#5. But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times.

John Abizaid

#6. It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.

Marlo Morgan

#7. Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

David Gerrold

#8. You don't go to church to find God; you bring him with you - attitude.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

#10. The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Tim LaHaye

#11. So you see, Case, you need us. You need us as badly as you did when we scraped you up from the gutter.

William Gibson

#12. Hell and heven is what you make it its only your personality that keeps you happy or makes you sad.

Colleen Hoover

#13. We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.

Alvin Toffler

#14. They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

#15. I knew a woman named Hope once, and boy did she fill me with her first name.

Jarod Kintz

#16. Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

Jimmy Wales

#17. Everyone gets a chance to be brave.

Tom King