Selimovic Mirza Quotes

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind. ~ Shazia Mirza

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons. ~ Aisha Mirza

Sometimes is necessary to fall from grace to teach indecent. ~ Ahmed Akram Mirza

Life is larger than any principle. Morality is an idea, but life is what we live. How can we fit it into this idea without damaging it? More lives have been ruined in attempts to prevent sin than because of sin itself."
"Should we live in sin then?"
"No. But prohibiting it doesn't help at all. It creates hypocrisy and spiritual cripples."
"So what should we do?"
"I don't know. ~ Mesa Selimovic

In the deadly sweep Of every wave, A thousand dangers lie in wait. ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Is this not the reason I write, to leave a piece of me behind? ~ Aisha Mirza

Everyone has attitude, and I think everyone should have attitude. But I know I have attitude, but that's just, I think if you don't have attitude, it comes only with self confidence. So if you don't have self confidence, you won't have attitude, and I think there's a difference when you have attitude and when you have arrogance. ~ Sania Mirza

Poetry emerges from the depths of struggle.
It comes up fighting, demanding to be heard. ~ Aisha Mirza

You Are Not Too Bad, That Is Why You Are Second. ~ Murtaza Mirza

Friendship is not chosen, he said, it happens, who knows why, like love. And I haven't bestowed anything on you, but on myself; I respect men who remain magnanimous even in their misfortune. ~ Mesa Selimovic

I strained to hear a voice from that stone, or grave, as if beneath it were hidden the secret of life and death. I sat on the cliff's edge, above the endless forests and crags and listened to the snakelike hissing of the mountain wind, in a twofold wasteland of loneliness and nonexistence, like the ancient corpse under the slab. ~ Mesa Selimovic

I think being a woman celebrity is the hardest thing in India ... People will ask many things, what you wear, how you speak, when you will have a baby and other things. ~ Sania Mirza

There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in unknown parts, there were dungeons in the city where hundreds of young men were kept in heavy chains and from where many never emerged alive, there were thousands who had disappeared leaving behind women with photographs and perennial waiting ,there were multitudes of dead bodies on the roads, in hospital beds, in fresh martyrs' graveyards and scattered casually on the snow of mindless borders. ~ Mirza Waheed

I developed in thousands of changes, and it always seemed to me that all of my former self disappeared with each new change, that it was lost in the mists of time that had passed and were now insignificant. But then, again and again, unexpectedly, I would find traces of everything that had been, like uncovered artifacts, like my own fossil strata; although they were old and unsightly, they became dear and beautiful. That rediscovered, recovered part of me, which was more than a memory, was beautified and returned from unreachable distances by time, which joined me with it. Thus, it had a twofold existence, as a part of my present personality, and as a memory. As the present, and as a beginning. ~ Mesa Selimovic

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each present day could thus be endured more easily, it would not be measured against what no longer exists. As things are, spectres mix with our lives so that there is neither pure memory nor pure life. They clash and try to strangle each other, continually ~ Mesa Selimovic

We pray together and when it is time for us to ask for what our hearts desire, my first wish is that he remain steadfast in faith, and then if he does not, that he never believe that God is a being with a heart like a human's, capable of being small and vindictive. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza

Sincerity is the certitude that we speak the truth (and who can be certain of that?), but there are many kinds of honesty, and they do not always agree with one another. ~ Mesa Selimovic

For how tiny the world,
This ant's egg-and the sky! ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Religion is a personal matter between God and man, and that force plays no role in it ~ Mirza Masroor Ahmad

As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now. ~ Sania Mirza

Against her own instincts, her own intuition, because she WANTS to believe him, because she has known him his whole life and cannot fathom a change so drastic he would be made unfamiliar to her. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza

And who will be the one to step forward first, grab a fistful of dirt, and before they have dropped it into my grave say to me, you are not going alone to the other world, we are here, I am here, sending you off. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza

In knowing you I, discovered my self. ~ Aisha Mirza

He examined everything freely, I hesitated in front of many things. He destroyed but did not build, saying what was not, but not what was. And denial is convincing; it sets neither boundaries nor goals for itself. It strives toward nothing; it defends nothing. It is harder to defend something than to attack it, because everything that is made reality constantly wears down, constantly deviates from the initial idea. ~ Mesa Selimovic

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration. ~ Sania Mirza

The world is no more than the Beloved's face. And the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist. ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

No tennis player is perfect. Even if you're world #1, I don't think, you still have things to improve on, and I'm not even close to that. So I am going to have weaknesses in my game; I am going to have strengths in my game, but I still have time to develop a lot of things, hopefully, and we'll see how it goes. ~ Sania Mirza

There is an urgent need for mankind to recognise its Creator as this is the only guarantor for the survival of humanity ~ Mirza Masroor Ahmad

Amar, I know this will mean nothing to you now. But I do believe that even your father's God, even He, would forgive you. To know you is to want to let you in. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza

People in fact talk most often for their own sake, and with a need to hear the echo of their words. ~ Mesa Selimovic

Vulnerability always comes with risks, but its rewards are deep. ~ Aisha Mirza

But more and more often I caught myself feeling comfortable in the warmth of the sun, with my readings, with the reflections in the water. Life became ordinary, even beautiful, tranquil. It seemed that I really was forgetting; a quiet reigned within me. But then, unexpectedly, for no apparent reason, unaccompanied by any thoughts that might have summoned it, a fiery stab would pierce through me, like a hidden, torturous pain, like a cramp. ~ Mesa Selimovic

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson. ~ Sania Mirza

What good is a fragile spirit, as when touched, shatters into a thousand pieces. ~ Aisha Mirza

Cruelty in the name of kindliness is terrible; it would bind our feet and hands; it would kill us with hypocrisy. Cruelty based on power is better - that we can at least hate. ~ Mesa Selimovic

One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I'm participating in these events. That's enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments. ~ Sania Mirza

The world is a playground -Indian ~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains. ~ Aisha Mirza

As long as I am winning, people shouldn't care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. How I dress is a very personal thing. It is scary that every time I wear a T-shirt, it becomes a talking point for the next three days. ~ Sania Mirza

Layla shuts her eyes, not wanting him to to see her looking at him. What is it about caring for another, feeling love, feeling affection, at times desire, that makes one shy? Even in front of her own husband she feels that hesitation of expression. ~ Fatima Farheen Mirza