Tehmina Durrani Quotes

#1. Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

Tehmina Durrani

#2. I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

Tehmina Durrani

#3. I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

Garrison Keillor

#4. There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

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#5. My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.

Tehmina Durrani

#6. I salute my desires with a bow.
were it not for them to come and play
mind would be empty just like me.

Suman Pokhrel

#7. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.

Tehmina Durrani

#8. Everything in life was transitory, enjoy the moment.

Robert Ferrigno

#9. Pleasing and appeasing our master and God at the same time was impossible.

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#10. Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#11. The five basic tenets of Islam continue onto the sixth for me. Huquq-ul-Ibaad, or humanitarianism. That it is not proclaimed as obligatory has deeper meaning; as right or wrong are left to human initiatives, its importance would be lost if forced.
-Edhi, A Mirror To The Blind

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#12. Pir Sain was a symbol of munafiqat.
I was a soldier.
This was a jehad.

Tehmina Durrani

#13. I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

John Key

#14. I don't want to get pigeonholed.

Miranda Lambert

#15. Love's absence ailed me. I could not imagine loving my husband. He was a superior and I did not know how to love and be subservient together. Nor had he ever thought of me as a human being, let alone a woman. For no reason had he ever softened towards me, I had stirred him that little.

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#16. I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

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#17. We each have 24 hours in a given day; how we choose to spend each moment determines how spent we are"! EL

Evinda Lepins

#18. 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.

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#19. The lesson was clear and I learned it well: blind acquiescence was necessary to gain approval; being yourself only earned condemnation.

Tehmina Durrani