Mohammad Hamid Ansari quote: "I extend my greetings and good wishes to all our citizens on the joyous occasion of Deepawali. The festival of lights, celebrated with gaiety and enthusiasm all over the country, signifies the victory of good over evil and is an appropriate occasion for us to resolve to follow the high ideals in life."

Most of India's 300 odd news channels are making losses and are dependent on dubious cross holdi...
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and be...
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI

No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI

Certain media-related developments in the country are raising questions regarding its objectivity an...
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI

If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI

Guilt is anything you did and fear others to know about
MOHAMMAD

If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.
MOHAMMAD

You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have ...
AZIZ ANSARI

Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job...
AZIZ ANSARI

The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. ...
AZIZ ANSARI

I don't think you can describe your ideal girl. A big part of that is just meeting someone and r...
AZIZ ANSARI

It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.
ANSARI BUKHARI

It will not be possible to apply safeguards if the data on legal imports shows nothing untoward.
ANSARI BUKHARI

We have to be sure the textile companies can solve their internal problems first.
ANSARI BUKHARI

The export-oriented category includes furniture, plastics, footwear and the spinning and yarn indust...
ANSARI BUKHARI

The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on...
ALI ANSARI

The European Union door is shut and the Iranians have thrown away the key. This was a symbolic slap ...
ALI ANSARI

Moderate Muslims have been given a giant task. The world is watching how they respond.
ALI ANSARI

It was always on the cards and they can justify it on the grounds that the new president will want h...
ALI ANSARI

At this moment in time, the chances of any agreement are extremely small.
ALI ANSARI

[Ali Ansari, an Iran expert at St. Andrews University in Scotland, said the president would have to ...
ALI ANSARI

It will have to be resolved internally. There is a view in Iran that if you give him enough rope, he...
ALI ANSARI

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the...
AZIZ ANSARI

The ''good-enough marriage'' is definitely not good enough for today's singles. We're not content to...
AZIZ ANSARI

Like most fedora wearers, he had a lot of inexplicable confidence.
AZIZ ANSARI

Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of chil...
AZIZ ANSARI

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.
AZIZ ANSARI

We will do all we can to solve the issue by peaceful means, but one of the ways to do that is to pre...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

One of the ways to prevent a war is to be prepared for it. But Iran will do everything possible to a...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

We stand for negotiations and emphasize that issues of this kind cannot be referred to the UN Securi...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

We haven't turned down this proposal. The Iranian government is looking attentively at the proposal,...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

This is a good initiative to resolve the situation. We believe that Iran and Russia should find a wa...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

Taking into account the good relations between Russia and Iran, I hope that together we can overcome...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

Given the friendly relations between Russia and Iran, I hope we will settle the crisis that has emer...
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

This is a good initiative to resolve the situation.
GHOLAMREZA ANSARI

Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people th...
AZIZ ANSARI

Why would anyone get married and have babies? That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard in my ...
AZIZ ANSARI

Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to re...
AZIZ ANSARI

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.
AZIZ ANSARI

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a ...
AZIZ ANSARI

I'm always down to try a new burger, but Shake Shack is still my top. What makes them so special...
AZIZ ANSARI

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.
AZIZ ANSARI

The interesting thing about text is that, as a medium, it separates you from the person you are spea...
AZIZ ANSARI

Even in my stand-up, there's a lot more positivity and enthusiasm rather than negative, I-hate-e...
AZIZ ANSARI

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.
AZIZ ANSARI

One of the big things I miss about New York is not my friends so much; it's Shake Shack, the bur...
AZIZ ANSARI

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
AZIZ ANSARI

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your ...
AZIZ ANSARI

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat.
AZIZ ANSARI

I'm kind of obsessed with food. I like to eat. When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tou...
AZIZ ANSARI

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
AZIZ ANSARI

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may a...
AZIZ ANSARI

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
AZIZ ANSARI

A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.
AZIZ ANSARI

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy...
AZIZ ANSARI

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up ma...
AZIZ ANSARI

Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in ...
AZIZ ANSARI

I hope you aren’t holding an ice cream cone against your chest, ’cause your heart just warmed—...
AZIZ ANSARI

I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter...
AZIZ ANSARI

If I ever was texting frequently with someone and wanted to make an alias, I think I'd go with "Scot...
AZIZ ANSARI

If you ask me the best bowler, then Wasim Akram was the best bowler because he had a lot of variety....
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

After the match-fixing allegations, the one thing I had was patience. It took a lot of time for the ...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you hav...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

Emotionally, I depend only on myself. My strong belief in the Almighty carries me.
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

At times, you are mentally but not physically prepared; at times, you are physically but not mentall...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

Cricket was a splendid chapter of my life; indeed, it made me what I am today. However, cricket alon...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

My uncle used to play cricket. I got used to the game at home. As kids we used to all wonder seeing ...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

When you are scoring runs, you automatically become a good leader because you are armed with so much...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

There is some conspiracy behind it to create disharmony amongst the Muslims.
MOHAMMAD HANIF

If beliefs of people and nations are insulted then the world will go towards violence. I hope this c...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

We are not on an international quest and we are not here to make other governments conform with our ...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

I think when you are playing at the international level, there is so much television exposure that p...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

You are at the top. We just start from zero.
ATA MOHAMMAD

Here at least we have a tent, so the children are somewhat safe.
ATA MOHAMMAD

We have no other sources of income and these buffaloes and maize is our source of living.
ATA MOHAMMAD

The hope is for the final victory of monotheism, morality, peace and reconciliation,
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

I assure all peace-loving individuals in the world that Iran's efforts in the field of nuclear techn...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

So the whole structure is weakened and collapses. Our system ties down the roof joists and rafters t...
MOHAMMAD FARZANEH

SAARC has not achieved much because it is our common legacy that we are living with mutual distrust ...
MOHAMMAD ZAMIR

The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those w...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

When we moved from our village, I thought this must be the end of the world for us. I have never see...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

Now I am able to see some hope at the end of a dark tunnel.
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

Fortunately, one can now see normalcy returning to the lives of the people sheltered in the camps. T...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

The earthquake made the whole village homeless as house after house collapsed once the ground starte...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

Cricket in Greece has prospects, but more money is needed, ... The children don't get to train very ...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

Since many voice recorders lack significant storage capability, the typical approach is simply to mo...
MOHAMMAD ASLAM

I probably won't even be able to recognize or identify many of the children who were born during thi...
MOHAMMAD ALI

I close down early these days, around 7 in the evening. It surprises my children who have never seen...
MOHAMMAD ALI

I just cannot say how many people are still under there and we are trying to evacuate them. Over 75 ...
MOHAMMAD ALI

I had just opened my shop when there was a big bang. I fell on the ground and the roof fell on me. T...
MOHAMMAD ALI

We are here to protest Britain's role in sending us to the U.N. Security Council. We must defend our...
MOHAMMAD ALI

The issue is, can the mandate change in some way to stop this sort of differentiation between global...
MOHAMMAD AKHTER

They would have done better to add 25 percent more funding and use that for local purchase.
MOHAMMAD AKHTER

This administration has said there are three components to national security - diplomacy, defense an...
MOHAMMAD AKHTER

As major stakeholders of U.S. foreign assistance, we are very concerned that the interests of the wo...
MOHAMMAD AKHTER

We are in touch with the health authorities and they have confirmed to us that there is no human cas...
MOHAMMAD AFZAL

We are not confirming it until laboratory tests come out.
MOHAMMAD AFZAL

We found some 3,600 birds dead at the farm on Friday evening. We collected samples and conducted tes...
MOHAMMAD AFZAL

It was a small farm, and we have already destroyed a total 3,500 chickens there.
MOHAMMAD AFZAL

When he was minister of culture we had few problems with things like censorship, ... Now we have man...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

We should listen in earnest to what other cultures offer, ... Dialogue is not easy.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

Ignoring people's demands in the name of religion ... will only create disappointment.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

one which creates the least limitations to freedom of expression.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

The artificial crises created in the past have not had a good impact on our national and internation...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

The American president's remarks not only showed that he does not have the ability to learn from his...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

Real peace can only be achieved through an end to occupation and the return of all Palestinians to t...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

Yes, there are certain areas. The coach and the captain know where to improve.
MOHAMMAD KAIF

I was a good fielder in the gully in my college days. But in the outfield, I was not such a good fie...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

harbor and assist terrorists.
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ...
MOHAMMAD AZHARUDDIN

The summit meeting will be about ways to strengthen solidarity in OPEC and to find ways to consolida...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

But this is really also treason. He has damaged Norway abroad. Not least, the publication has result...
KHALID MOHAMMAD

The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a ...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

Our region more than at any time in the past needs calm and stability,
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

We must try to show freedom is compatible with Islam. Don't think that Islam is against freedom,
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

[Pledging to follow] legal channels to deal with this issue, ... We must always be worried about the...
MOHAMMAD KHATAMI

We can say that it was one of the strongest earthquakes felt in Islamabad.
MOHAMMAD HANIF

Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,
MOHAMMAD KHAN

That will be a separate issue on which no decision has been made.
MOHAMMAD SAEEDI

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I ...
MOHSIN HAMID

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.
MOHSIN HAMID

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. T...
MOHSIN HAMID

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of ...
MOHSIN HAMID

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book ...
HAMID KARZAI

Where liberty dies, evil grows.
HAMID KARZAI

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
HAMID KARZAI

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
HAMID KARZAI

The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
HAMID KARZAI

The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
HAMID KARZAI

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones tha...
HAMID KARZAI

Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for th...
HAMID KARZAI

I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
HAMID KARZAI

The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and internation...
HAMID KARZAI

I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
HAMID KARZAI

A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an eth...
HAMID KARZAI

Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and exp...
HAMID KARZAI

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of c...
HAMID KARZAI

I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to s...
HAMID KARZAI

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.
HAMID KARZAI

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
HAMID KARZAI

No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
HAMID KARZAI

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
HAMID KARZAI

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better r...
HAMID KARZAI

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.
MOHSIN HAMID

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny.
KAMRAN HAMID

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of t...
MOHSIN HAMID

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.
MOHSIN HAMID

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. Th...
HAMID KARZAI

If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
HAMID KARZAI

We as the Afghan people and government are willing to help Pakistan work for peace in Afghanistan an...
HAMID KARZAI

Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over...
HAMID KARZAI

But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in...
HAMID KARZAI

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achi...
HAMID KARZAI

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
HAMID KARZAI

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

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin&#...
MOHSIN HAMID

For people who are at the bottom economically, the world is becoming a harder and harder place. And ...
MOHSIN HAMID

There are many cultural scenes in Lahore, just as there are in London. And there is a celebrity cult...
MOHSIN HAMID

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m...
MOHSIN HAMID

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, ...
MOHSIN HAMID

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had...
MOHSIN HAMID

If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, y...
MOHSIN HAMID

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakis...
MOHSIN HAMID

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, doz...
MOHSIN HAMID

Part of the reason people abroad resent the United States is something Americans can do very little ...
MOHSIN HAMID

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas a...
MOHSIN HAMID

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has do...
MOHSIN HAMID

I think the most effective forms of critique are ones that establish a common ground for people to o...
MOHSIN HAMID

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.
MOHSIN HAMID

Some preparations are now in progress to assure the smooth organization of the meeting, and 'Managem...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but '...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

The total number of convicts at the jails across the country has reached 105,000. Hopefully, the rem...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

As long as the regulations have not been revised, all prisoners will be given a sentence cut in line...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

We just signed a commitment for peaceful settlement, ... We aim to end violence and to begin a new l...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

The rule goes that all prisoners can get remission as long as they have displayed good behavior,
HAMID AWALUDDIN

Remission is for all prisoners without looking at the type of crimes which had been carried out,
HAMID AWALUDDIN

With the passing of this draft law, international cooperation in battling corruption and other trans...
HAMID AWALUDDIN

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he...
MOHSIN HAMID

There was no transparency at all in the legal process. We were unable to follow the Supreme Court's ...
USMAN HAMID

I am sometimes asked to name my favourite books. The list changes, depending on my mood, the year, t...
MOHSIN HAMID

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.
MOHSIN HAMID

We are glad and happy for what Pakistan is now doing on their territory to chase terrorists and to a...
HAMID KARZAI

We want to put pressure on government in parliament and in the street.
ABDUL HAMID

There's nothing here for us anymore, so we won't come back. We'll settle anywhere else in Pakistan t...
ABDUL HAMID

The defendant didn't take the proper action in his jurisdiction to prevent the incidents or take int...
ABDUL HAMID

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I int...
MOHSIN HAMID

We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humaniti...
MOHSIN HAMID

I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my f...
MOHSIN HAMID

America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can,...
MOHSIN HAMID

Maximum return was the maxim to which we returned.
MOHSIN HAMID

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
MOHSIN HAMID

Several US tanks and armored vehicles were entering the area.
AMIR HAMID

My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecu...
MOHSIN HAMID

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial construc...
MOHSIN HAMID

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fict...
MOHSIN HAMID

There's a reason prophets perform miracles: language lacks the power to describe faith. And you have...
MOHSIN HAMID

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a se...
MOHSIN HAMID

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