Syahidah Ismail Quotes

Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves. ~ Mufti Ismail Menk

It was only a phrase that went from mouth to mouth and was never quite swallowed. ~ Ismail Kadare

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid. ~ Ismail Haniyeh

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant. ~ Ismail Kadare

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water. ~ Ismail Serageldin

The next World War will be over water ~ Ismail Serageldin

If I manage to write something that I consider good and valuable in a particular place, that spot automatically has a special aura for me. In Albania, there are two cities where I have written the majority of my work: Gjirokaster, my home city, and Tirana. ~ Ismail Kadare

The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you'd unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that "Wednesday" or "Friday" really are. ~ Ismail Kadare

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible ... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship. ~ Ismail Kadare

Getting rid of Bin Laden is good for the cause of peace worldwide but what counts is to overcome the discourse and the methods - the violent methods - that were created and encouraged by Bin Laden and others in the world. ~ Ismail Haniyeh

Obstacles on our path are some of the tests of life. They make us stronger, better people and open up doors we had never imagined. ~ Mufti Ismail Menk

Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve. ~ Salman Rushdie

Every passion or wicked thought, every affliction or crime, every rebellion or catastrophe necessarily casts its shadow before it long before it manifests itself in real life. ~ Ismail Kadare

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes. ~ Ismail Kadare

I hope that Americans will give careful and well-informed thought to root causes and historical realities, in which case I think they will question why a supposedly 'legitimate' state such as Israel has had to conduct decades of war against a subject refugee population without ever achieving its goals. ~ Ismail Haniyeh

Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something. ~ Edna Adan Ismail

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies. ~ Ismail Kadare

Get up to pray in the dark when all are asleep and see how your path is lit and your life begins to shine. ~ Mufti Ismail Menk

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past. ~ Ismail Kadare

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one. ~ Ismail Merchant

Not a single thought managed to take shape in her mind: for the likeness of this day to the last seemed to her the clearest proof that it would be another quite useless day, a day she would gladly have done without. For a moment she thought that a day like this would be pointless for anyone on earth, then abruptly changed her mind as she realised that thousands of women, after a hard week's work, or a family quarrel, or even just after catching a cold, would envy her just for having the leisure to rest in comfort. ~ Ismail Kadare

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'! ~ Ismail Kadare

The idea of quick methods to success in this life or the Afterlife is a deception, unrealistic and unislamic. ~ Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar

This is where they keep the dreams about the end of the world, according to the inhabitants of places where the winters are very windy. ~ Ismail Kadare

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV ... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast. ~ Aasif Mandvi

Sunday had spread all over the city. It looked as if the sun had smacked into the earth and broken into pieces and chunks of wet light were scattered everywhere
in the streets, on the window panes, on puddles and roofs. I remembered a day long ago when Grandmother had cleaned a big fish. Her forearms were splattered with shiny scales. It was as if she had Sunday in her whole body. When my father got angry, he had Tuesday. ~ Ismail Kadare

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge. ~ Ismail Merchant

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy. ~ Ismail Haniyeh

When you strive in the way of the Almighty, you don't worry about being accepted or having the approval of others. You know your priority. ~ Mufti Ismail Menk

I'm sure things will get better. So...it's okay to stop fighting. ~ Yosuke Kuroda

This is how things come to pass in the world,' one of the princes is supposed to have said. 'Blood flows one way in life and another way in song, and one never knows which flow is the right one. ~ Ismail Kadare