Mohsin Hamid Quotes

With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

Mohsin Hamid

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• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Confidence
  • Courage

• The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Work
  • Great
  • History

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Mind
  • Technology
  • Magic

• French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • People
  • Love
  • Chocolate

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Hate
  • Question

• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Love
  • America

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Ambition

• It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Good
  • Work
  • Looking

• My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Father
  • Game
  • Gambling

• If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Long
  • Me
  • Process

• I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Day

• I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Drunk

• In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Believe
  • True

• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Business
  • Control

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  

  Al Stewart
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Hand

• The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Hilarious

• Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

  

  Margaret Millar

• I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • School
  • High
  • Beautiful

• Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Child

• With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of pre-existing defined groups, the tribe is disappearing. I'm not in favor of going back to those things, but you can't take those things away without putting something new in its place. So finding a way to make transience more acceptable, even beautiful is key.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • Beautiful
  • Movement
  • Disappear