Quotes About Waziristan

#1. The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire.

Greg Mortenson

#2. In Waziristan people get really upset when there are no drone attacks. Their apprehension is that the US and Pakistani government might enter in an agreement to halt the attacks.

Pervez Hoodbhoy

#3. We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

Fatima Bhutto

#4. The whole affair left a lot of bad feeling, particularly because on 17 March, the day after Davis was released, a drone attack on a tribal council in North Waziristan killed about forty people. The attack seemed to send the message that the CIA could do as it pleased in our country.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.

Greg Mortenson

#6. The people of Waziristan are so innocent they seem stupid and so straight forward the seem arrogant

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#7. Make a character want something - that's how you begin.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

Linus Torvalds

#9. It's always tough when you lose - you've worked so hard for that moment and it hasn't gone the way you wanted. But you have to realise there's always a bright side, you have to pick yourself up and get ready for the next game.

Maria Sharapova

#10. A two thousand years old culture is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of Islam. Cheegha, The Call is a lone voice against the threat to the tribal way of life, the ways of the fathers.

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#11. Again, your name? I was psychoanalyzing your face.

Brian Spellman

#12. In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Manuel Puig

#13. Light-field photography is a transformational technology that needs a transformational product to introduce it. For the first time, we have a light-field camera that's going to be for everyone - not something in a huge room in a research facility.

Ren Ng

#14. But she remained lost to him the way dew
was lost to the newly formed earth in the haze
of the very first sunset.

J. Neil C. Garcia

#15. I think that success is having fun.

Bruno Mars

#16. I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I've done.

Miriam Margolyes

#17. No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise

Bien Sufficient

#18. Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. I think it does, a little, hurt to be photographed.

Diane Arbus