Quotes About Urdu Poetry

#1. I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Satya Nadella

#2. Once through this ruined city did I pass
I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked
'What knowest thou of this wilderness?'
It replied: 'I can sum it up in two words:
'Alas, Alas!

Khushwant Singh

#3. No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end.

Rudyard Kipling

#4. There is no such thing as shut doors, just ones that have yet to be opened!

Lauren Martin

#5. I can't understand Urdu, Bahasa or Russian, but when the Pakistani Faiz, the Indonesian Rendra and the Russian Rosdentvensky declaim, I can feel the living throb of rhythm and music, the warmth and passion of their poetry, as do the hundreds, not a mere roomful, of poetry lovers in the audience.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. Businesses can lead with their values and make money, too. You don't have to simply be purely profit-driven. You can integrate social and environmental concerns into a business, be a caring business, be a generous business and still do very well financially.

Jerry Greenfield

#7. The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

Manfred Von Richthofen

#9. If you can't pass the ball properly, a bowl of pasta's not going to make that much difference!

Harry Redknapp

#10. Jahan mein ehle-e-imaan soorat-e-khursheed jeetay hain,
Idhar doobey, udhar nikley; udhar doobey, idhar nikley

In this world, men of faith and self-confidence are like the sun,
They go down on one side to come up on the other.

Allama Iqbal

#11. The bus is full of German tourists in shorts so short that they required a Brazilian wax for the men as well as the women. There had been thighs as bountiful as baking bread, as wobbly as Jello, and as pitted as the surface of the moon.

Rob Thurman

#12. I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

Arabella Weir