Umera Ahmed Quotes

The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it. ~ Umera Ahmed

To him who begs for a drop,
You grant the seas. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

Imama looked at the black sweater and the white collar peeking out of it. She put her arms around his neck and rested her head on his chest. She inhaled the soft cologne he was using. Salar was absolutely still as if he could not believe what was happening. Then, gently, he embraced her. "I am honoured," she heard him say. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

You have been my saviour in my loneliness.
Were it not for you, I would have been dead. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

When darkness, layer by layer, descends on the soul,
Your light then does with greater brilliance glow. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful. ~ Umera Ahmed

The fragrance of the Prophet (pbuh) lingers on my fingers, my lips,
So often did I write and kiss his blessed name. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

If I stand tall today, it is your mercy.
For your support does not let me waver. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

We realise our existence is confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
We come to our senses; we understand our utter insignificance. ~ Umera Ahmed

Look, what you call an attempted suicide is not what I intended - I just
wanted to know the pain of dying…how it feels ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next to nothingness?
Hell. ~ Umera Ahmed

People who are buried leave
Behind their memories.
People feel sad for them and
Worry, but for the living man,
They are never sorry.
This person, who is the sufferer,
Will never be able to withstand,
The chances snatched from him,
He thinks, "Am I under a ban?"
So he dies, and the world is
Forever in debt
For the man who faced
Death before his death. ~ Umera Ahmed

Undaunted, they cross the darkness
Whose brows are illumined by your brilliance. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease - where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things. ~ Umera Ahmed

Your admirer asks nothing from the kings,
For the dust of your tracks is my greatest reward. ~ Umera Ahmed- Peer-e-Kamil

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true. ~ Umera Ahmad

Ruby clapped her hands in glee and gave a comedic wiggle of her head, Bollywood style.

I know the song now, can even sing it, but back then all I heard was the verdant Punjabi, the striking primary colours of the five rivers, the intricate history of a complex land. ~ Ruth Ahmed

let me stay with you.... put me in the center of your heart ... let my hand with your hand... I will not betray your love ~ Ahmed

Every Mistake Teach Us a Lesson ~ Ashfaq Ahmed

I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you. ~ Riz Ahmed

The feeling of being hurt, is the proof that you are in love. ~ Ahmed Ayub

He looked straight at me and winked. On anyone else it would have looked ridiculous - 1996 had moved beyond the language of winking at girls. ~ Ruth Ahmed

To love others you've got to love yourself, but I love myself too much I've got no place for others. ~ Ahmed Mostafa

Thank you for undusting my true colors; or color: black... Oh, how I missed the darkness! ~ Ahmed Mostafa

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds. ~ Ahmed H. Zewail

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men. ~ Ahmed Ben Bella

Nothing moved him. No sense of remorse could knock him back into reaction; no tears of regret flowed from those weary eyes.This seemingly innocuous episode, transpired into greater tragedy and it left him vaguely disengaged. ~ Mehreen Ahmed

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years. ~ Ahmed Ben Bella

Success is like a locked door, to open and get it through, you need to create your own key. ~ Zeeshan Ahmed

Happiness is the natural state of being alive. Being alive is being happy. ~ Niyaz Ahmed

Interestingly, this was the only incident of blatant prejudice that I can

remember. But I am aware that such opinions exist in human beings, and

it's not a question of being Egyptian or being an Arab or being a Muslim.

One could be a Christian against a Jew or a Jew against a Christian, or a

white against a black, or a man against a woman. My philosophy is not

to let such attitudes stop me from what I want to do. I don't take it very

seriously, although as you can see, I remember the incident very well.

The point was I had to get on with my work and had to behave properly,

and in the process perhaps even change the opinion of these people. But

on the other hand, if I did nothing but complain and feel sorry for myself,

then I wouldn't get anywhere. ~ Ahmed H. Zewail

It was things like that I remembered about Ruby, the incongruity, the struggle to find herself.

No matter what she wore though she was always Ruby, always herself. ~ Ruth Ahmed

Here at Hajj, I was experiencing a taste of the same poison. While the women in my tent weren't nearly as wealthy or polished as the bewitching woman at al-Multaqa, they subscribed to the same view, deciding (based on skin color and ethnicity) that I surely must be a handmaid or at best nanny to a poor Saudi family who couldn't afford the much better Filipina maids, having instead to resort to Pakistani or worse, Bengali help. In fact I did remember one Saudi woman in the tent asking me if I was Bengali. ~ Qanta A. Ahmed

Her voice was erudite, interesting; the voice of someone who straddled two cultures with a surety and style that I wished my boyfriend could find. She was smart, funny, and, above all, completely capable of controlling her life and what happened to it. ~ Ruth Ahmed

Making the earth a better place for humans needs people with hearts full of mercy, full of love towards humanity, persons who have a high sense of responsibility, and live consciences. Be one of them, and support anyone who is like them. ~ Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi

Look, my son, she is so beautiful, she has fair skin and green eyes and brown hair.'

'She's English?' I asked cheekily, holding the cheap photo print with trepidation.

Which unfortunate victim had they found for me to marry in what backwater, unbeknownst that my heart was not for trading? Honour would quote Shakespeare to make a point; for me, it was always Rumi.

'La hawla wala kuwwat... May God protect us from such misfortune... you think I have lost my senses that I would marry you to a white girl?' My mum used the word gori as an insult and yet when she talked about Billo she said 'Look how gori she is.'

Oh, Mum, the irony.

'Well, you seem pretty obsessed with green eyes and skin colour,' I mumbled.

'She is gorgeous.' Mum went on ignoring me. 'Think how beautiful your children, my grandchildren, will be? They will have cats' eyes, just like Billo.'

Honour has fair skin and green eyes too, and just think how beautiful your grandchildren will be if they're mixed race, I thought.

I didn't say that to my mum, obviously. ~ Ruth Ahmed

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different ~ Ahmed Yassin

All human beings have a default happiness setting, I had returned to mine. ~ Sahana Ahmed

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield. ~ Ahmed Yassin

Syria may appear to be a small country, but it is just the type of entangled conflict that can lead to a world catastrophe. It does not take much imagination to see Syria as the Sarajevo of the 21st century, leading to world war. ~ Ahmed Zewail

I don't think that they have many of the scientists who were involved in the weapons program to talk to at this time, and there were thousands of people, engineers and scientists, they know where the weapons are. ~ Ahmed Chalabi

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy. ~ Ahmed Ben Bella

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science. ~ Ahmed H. Zewail

-I like you.
-And I like hanging out with you and everything...
-but I can't let this go on any further.
--Why not?
-Because I don't want to hurt you.
--I wouldn't mind.
--It'd be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.
--You're just so busy being you, you have
--no idea how unique you are. ~ Ahmed Abdelmohsen

The American mass media have achieved what American political might could not: World domination. ~ Akbar S. Ahmed

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging ... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights. ~ Riz Ahmed

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated. ~ Ahmed Chalabi

Do you ever look up at the stars and try to contemplate the ends of the universe? ~ Ruth Ahmed

Talent never guarantees the success, its the art of success which can leads you to the sky ~ Zeeshan Ahmed

The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. ~ Ahmed Chalabi

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal. ~ Ahmed H. Zewail

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor. ~ Ahmed Zewail