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

• 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

• 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

• I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

  

  Fred Wilson

• People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • World
  • Cancer

• It might not be pretty, but the A-10 is our most capable close air-support aircraft, and its arrival on the battlefield signals survival for our troops and annihilation for our enemies.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Pretty
  • Support
  • Air

• I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.

  

  Zendaya
  • Know
  • Like
  • Virgo

• My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.

  

  Joni Ernst
  • Time
  • Live
  • Parents

• It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Fighting
  • Corruption
  • Fairs

• I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Kind

• 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