Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya Quotes

Hope brings chances;
Chances gives hope;
And hoping for chances is what life is all about. ~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.
We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. ~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own.
But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories. ~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Things can be fixed.
Relationship CANNOT.
Its like standing on a cracked glass plane, you might just adjust yourself for the time being but there will always be a fear of increasing the cracks, fear of falling through, fear of being destroyed. ~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

Revolution and religion blend very well ~ Hassan Hanafi

Men constantly feel hungry and women constantly feel sad. That's what marriage does to them. ~Teddy Butt, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti ~ Mohammed Hanif

To talk about liberty and freedom is nice, lovely, but the important thing is to allow people to act in liberty and freedom. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

THE GHOST OF THE AUTHOR'S MOTHER HAS A CONVERSATION WITH HIS FIANCÉE ABOUT HIGHWAYS

...and down south, honey. When the side of the road began to swell with dead and dying things, that's when us black children knew it was summer. Daddy didn't keep clocks in the house. Ain't no use when the sky round those parts always had some flames runnin' to horizon, lookin' like the sun was always out. back when I was a little girl, I swear, them white folk down south would do anything to stop another dark thing from touching the land, even the nighttime. We ain't have streetlights, or some grandmotherly voice riding through the fields on horseback tellin' us when to come inside. What we had was the stomach of a deer, split open on route 59. What we had was flies resting on the exposed insides of animals with their tongues touching the pavement. What we had was the smell of gunpowder and the promise of more to come, and, child, that'll get you home before the old folks would break out the moonshine and celebrate another day they didn't have to pull the body of someone they loved from the river. I say 'river' because I want you to always be able to look at the trees without crying. When we moved east, I learned how a night sky can cup a black girl in its hands and ask for forgiveness. My daddy sold the pistol he kept in the sock drawer and took me to the park. Those days, I used to ask him what he feared, and he always said "the bottom of a good glass." And then he stopped answer ~ Hanif Abdurraqib

We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play soccer there. That was where they used to hold public executions for soldiers who deserted the army and members of the Kurdish resistance. ~ Hassan Blasim

This was the English passion, not for self-improvement or culture or wit, but for DIY, Do It Yourself, for bigger and better houses with more mod cons, the painstaking accumulation of comfort and, with it, status - the concrete display of earned cash. ~ Hanif Kureishi

If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea. ~ Hassan Al-Banna

My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing. ~ Hassan Blasim

Losing hope means ceasing to love my son and my girlfriend and many friends and people around the world. ~ Hassan Blasim

Go. You are working very hard, Hassan. You deserve some fun. I will take care of Mehtab and your aunt, don't you worry. The ting about agitated hens, you throw some corn, you cluck over them a bit, and in no time they settle down. So go. I will take care of them. Not to worry. ~ Richard C. Morais

In this way Hassan lived the happiest of lives until he was overtaken by death, breaker of ties and destroyer of delights. ~ Ted Chiang

Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They'll sit on anyone's knee. ~ Hanif Kureishi

Hassan Harbish. Sunni Muslim. Not a terrorist.
Lindsey Lee Wells. Methodist. Me, neither. ~ John Green

Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

Marriage domesticates sex but frees love. It is unsuitable as a solution to human need, but as with capitalism, the alternatives are much worse. ~ Hanif Kureishi

He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative. ~ Hanif Kureishi

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority ... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. ~ Ihab Hassan

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it. ~ Tamer Hassan

I ran on the platform of moderation and won the election by a large margin. By virtue of the strong mandate that I received from the electorate, I am committed to operating in the framework of moderation, which calls inter alia for a balance between realism and the pursuit of the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. ~ Hassan Rouhani

Born for disappointment, she only wanted what I couldn't give. ~ Hanif Kureishi

NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system. ~ Hanif Kureishi

If you want to know a man, see how he is in love. ~ Hanif Kureishi

There is no moment in America when I do not feel like I am fighting. When I do not feel like I'm pushing back against a machine that asks me to prove that I belong here. ~ Hanif Abdurraqib

As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries. ~ Hassan Rouhani

Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

Let's have a mango party on Pak One. Let's bring back the good old days. ~ Mohammed Hanif

The interesting people you wanted to be with - their minds were unusual, you saw things freshly with them and all was not deadness and repetition. ~ Hanif Kureishi

We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must. ~ Hanif Abdurraqib

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life. ~ Tamer Hassan

Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer without bodyguards can hardly be considered serious. A bad review is the least of our problems. ~ Hanif Kureishi

I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation. ~ Hassan Blasim

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

There is no solution to the conflict except with the disappearance of Israel. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

impossibility exist only in the weak minds ~ Hassan Choughari

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. ~ Hassan Fathy

Please!" I cried. "Will you stop toying with me and just get the business over with!"
He laughed and then ran his tongue across my belly. "But that is not my wish, ma chère. No indeed. It is my desire to make you bask in what you most despise. You wished to be a boy, but I intend to teach you the untold delights of being a woman. ~ Victoria Vane

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. ~ Hassan Nasrallah

There is something about setting eyes on the people who hold you up instead of imagining them. ~ Hanif Abdurraqib

As a Newbody, however, I began to like the pornographic circus of rough sex; the stuff that resembled some of the modern dance I had seen, animalistic, without talk. I begged to be turned into meat, held down, tied, blindfolded, slapped, pulled and strangled, entirely merged in the physical, all my swirling selves sucked into orgasm. ~ Hanif Kureishi

The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak. ~ Ihab Hassan

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! ~ Hanif Kureishi

He lives in a world where where people want their share of pain measured, labelled, packaged,with its ingredients identified in plain language. They want it to come with an expiry date and a guarantee that there is this and no more ~ Mohammed Hanif