Anosha Khan Quotes

I'd been missing this, the ease of being with someone without speaking, without suppressing speech. I'd grown up with it in Karachi, where groups of men will congregate in the smallest spaces -- the grass between houses, a roundabout -- spaces made more generous through companionable silence. It existed between women too, this bond. My sister and her friends could spend hours reclining together on a bed, or a carpet. If secrets were murmured, it happened in a style so intuited it was pre-verbal. I hadn't experienced this very much in the West, where it seemed people had a reason for everything, including intimacy. ~ Uzma Aslam Khan

Things appear different from every different plane from which you look at them, and when a person standing on flat earth asks a person standing on top of a mountain, "Do you also believe something?" the person cannot tell much. The questioner must come to the top of the mountain and see. There can be no link of conversation between them until that time. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

The voice therefore naturally expresses the attitude of mind whether true or false, sincere or insincere. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Надобно смело признаться, Лира!
Мы тяготели к великим мира:
Мачтам, знаменам, церквам, царям,
Бардам, героям, орлам и старцам,
Так, присягнувши на верность - царствам,
Не доверяют Шатра - ветрам.

Знаешь царя - так псаря не жалуй!
Верность как якорем нас держала:
Верность величью - вине - беде,
Верность великой вине венчанной!
Так, присягнувши на верность - Хану,
Не присягают его орде.

Ветреный век мы застали, Лира!
Ветер в клоки изодрав мундиры,
Треплет последний лоскут Шатра…
Новые толпы - иные флаги!
Мы ж остаемся верны присяге,
Ибо дурные вожди - ветра.

14 августа 1918



Better, my Lyre, to confess it freely!
It was the great ever stirred our feelings:
masts, battle ensigns, churches, and kings,
bards, epic heroes, eagles, and elders.
Those that are pledged to the realm, like soldiers,
do not confide their Tent - to the winds.

You know the Tsar - do not toy with the hunter!
Loyalty has held us, firm as an anchor:
loyalty to greatness - to guilt - to grief,
to the great crowned guilt - loyalty unswerving!
Those that are pledged to the Khan will serve him
- their oath is not to the horde, but its chief.

We struck a fickle age, Lyre, that scatters
all to the winds! Uniforms ripped to tatters,
and the last shreds of the Tent worn thin...
New crowds ~ Marina Tsvetaeva

The fastest and most sure way to be successful with any business or job is to do what you love to do. ~ Jamie Khan

The glass is half full, the glass is half empty or nothing is in the glass, these are the metaphorical situations created by our mind to give ourselves hope, which is to expect something better in the future or to hold on to what we have in hand. Success is always about playing these situations to perfection. The level of our play will be proportionate to the level of hope, which again is a laborious form of a wish. A wish is belief in miracles but a hope is working to get due returns against the invested efforts. ~ Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

Life must be bad if my only friend is a giant bat. ~ Joshua Khan

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes. ~ Genghis Khan

When you run out of love, it's really hard to understand whether you have lost your heart or your heart has lost you ... ~ Munia Khan

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate? ~ Imran Khan

If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them? ~ Munia Khan

I used to be a 'malice';people called me Alice- in Blunderland ! ~ Munia Khan

People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go. ~ Salman Khan

Allah in the name of The Most Affectionate, the Merciful. ~ Imam Ahmed Raza Khan

Death is buried there into death
Hunger strikes on its own last breath
No spine to shiver, no heart talks
At life's craving poverty mocks

From the poem 'Exhumation ~ Munia Khan

Love may not be quid pro quo but marriage certainly is. ~ Shahla Khan

Personal responsibility is not only undervalued but actually discouraged by the standard classroom model, with its enforced passivity and rigid boundaries of curriculum and time. Denied the opportunity to make even the most basic decisions about how and what they will learn, students stop short of full commitment. ~ Salman Khan

Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds. ~ Munia Khan

A farewell to my shadow is not my death; it's my rebirth in darkness. ~ Munia Khan

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself ~ Munia Khan

People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women. ~ Genghis Khan

An act of kindness, be it a sweet word, or a supporting hand, is never wasted upon those with nothing in the world - Konjic ~ Rehan Khan

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands. ~ Munia Khan

Every criminal has a good mind conquered by the devil ~ Munia Khan

I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life ~ Nouman Ali Khan

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself is formless. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

The little dove, in her nest, in my kitchen window, still awake, all scared, waiting for the storm to pass and we humans are sleeping peacefully, believing that our concrete houses will save us... ~ Nauman Khan

i am infinitely yearning
brimming
and overflowing
in words

i discover
it's another way
for me
to be in tears. ~ Sanober Khan

Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart. ~ Shahla Khan

MISS YOU WILL MISS ME IF YOU, MISS UNDERSTAND ME ~ Yakoob Khan

Sex is not required to sell my film. My name is enough. ~ Shahrukh Khan

When people speak these days, about an inevitable "Clash of Civilizations" in our world, what they often mean, I fear, is an inevitable "Clash of Religions." But I would use different terminology altogether. The essential problem, as I see it, in relations between the Muslim world and the West is "A Clash of Ignorance." And what I would prescribe -- as an essential first step -- is a concentrated educational effort.

Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the Tutzing Evangelical Academy Upon Receiving the "Tolerance" Award - 20 May 2006 (Tutzing, Germany) ~ Aga Khan

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful. ~ Kareena Kapoor Khan