Kublai Khan Quotes

... Marco's answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in the Great Khan's head. That is to say, between the two of them it did not matter whether questions and solutions were uttered aloud or whether each of the two went on pondering in silence. In fact, they were silent, their eyes half-closed, reclining on cushions, swaying in hammocks, smoking long amber pipes.
Marco Polo imagined answering (or Kublai Khan imagined his answer) that the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there ... ~ Italo Calvino

This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history. ~ Conn Iggulden

Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the system of education in China, we know from records of the time that Kublai Khan created thousands of public schools to provide a basic education for all children, including those of poor peasants. Until then, only the wealthy were literate. Kublai's bid at 'universal education' had never been attempted by any country on Earth. In the western world, nearly 500 years would pass before governments began to take responsibility for the public education of all children. ~ Russell Freedman

It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two. ~ John Fusco

The map of the world is drawn by travelers and nomads. Built into it are steps, nights and days, stations and encounters. ~ Jasna Horvat

Why do you speak to me of the stones? It is only the arch that matters to me. ~ Kublai Khan

When one looks at the ocean, they can only see that part of it which comes within their range of vision; so it is with the truth. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body. ~ Imran Khan

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta'ala is a perfect Judge. We are not. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness. ~ Shahrukh Khan

You don't need a sad soul
to feel the beauty of a dead grave
Just stay with the pale moon
when darkness wants the night to be brave ~ Munia Khan

All men must marry much younger women ~ Saif Ali Khan

The empty chair in your heart should remain empty forever rather than someone unworthy sitting in there ~ Munia Khan

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph ~ Munia Khan

We're the last of the Tasburai. We have to keep the faith. ~ Rehan Khan

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. ~ Sanober Khan

The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive ~ Munia Khan

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion. ~ Aly Khan

Please let me know if I am not here
Let me know if I fail to find you there
For before the dawn I leave the night behind me
And before my heart I let you leave me behind. ~ Munia Khan

Faith without wisdom and knowledge could produce bigots completely lacking in compassion and tolerance. ~ Imran Khan

Humans, because they learn more about their predator and vampires because they wouldn't have to go into lengthy speeches about their kind when they are doing their predator bit. ~ Cyma Rizwaan Khan

Wasn't sunrise meant to be the hour of hope? 'The season of creation' some poet or other had once called it. Fucking poet. ~ Uzma Aslam Khan

People run after respect in this world. We think respect will come from our money, car, the brand of our clothing, and the connections we have with powerful people. Dignity and respect will only come when we take Allah as our teacher. ~ Nouman Ali Khan

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences. ~ Chaka Khan

The value of darkness can never be measured
if you don't break its cheap spell secretly treasured ~ Munia Khan

Every step we take in life, is one step closer to our death - Huja ~ Rehan Khan

Soft woman and hard metal ... unexpected & sexy as hell. Had she been real? ~ Mina Khan

The second thing that tore at my heart was the sight of educated yet jobless Baluch youngsters addicted to drugs. The landscape changed non-stop, but the story of deprivation and misery remained the same throughout the belt. NA-260 (Quetta-cum-Chagai-cum-Mastung) was considered the largest electoral constituency of Pakistan, spread over 700 kilometres and bordering Iran and Afghanistan. It was not only an administrative impossibility to govern, but had the additional challenges of stretching from a Pashtun stronghold in Quetta into a mainly Baluch belt. Cross-border smuggling and infiltration was a huge additional complication. ~ Reham Khan

She imagined kisses on her neck and shoulder. Soft, light kisses; sharp, playful nips. Damn. Her imagination came in high-definition. ~ Mina Khan

Dreamers must dream on
as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful of reality ~ Munia Khan

The worst thing for worker's is their bosses business going out of business. ~ Sadiq Khan

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

some words
bring warmth
just by
being
next to each other. ~ Sanober Khan

Just as God gave different fingers to the hand so has He given different ways to men. ~ Genghis Khan

violent storms. and beautiful smiles. both have electricity. both are equally destructive in nature. ~ Sanober Khan

The sea tells you everything will be fine. The mountains tell you it doesn't matter anyway. ~ Adeel Ahmed Khan

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it. ~ Kareena Kapoor Khan

There is no end to one's faults. To think of them makes one humble. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

The object attained by both good and bad methods is the same, but the way one tries to attain it turns the object into right or wrong. It is not the object which is wrong, it is the way one adopts to attain it. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves; they do not look beautiful when they fall. ~ Naveed A. Khan

In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed. ~ Tim Cope

The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by the army. China continues to provide military equipment. ~ Irene Khan