Zia Quotes
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Zia Quotes & Sayings
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Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.
— Zia Haider Rahman
destruction. Turning to God can save your life, but, in the process, it can annihilate your soul.
— Zia Haider Rahman
General Zia brought in Islamic laws which reduced a woman's evidence in court to count for only half that of a man's.
— Malala Yousafzai
AH, MY THREE FAVORITE WORDS: Carter, shut up. Zia
— Rick Riordan
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late.~Carter Kane — Rick Riordan
We take much for granted, much that is granted by others, and we're told to do as we're told, and we agree. And we must agree.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.
— Khaleda Zia
It's always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don't you think?
— Zia Haider Rahman
Every man, he said, carries his own pyre.
— Zia Haider Rahman
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
— Khaleda Zia
We don't need magic to change the world.
— J.K. Rowling
So," said Zia, "you're gonna eat your way through the whole universe, top to bottom. And then what?
— Adam Christopher
With Zia's controversial demise in 1988, Jinnah was finally spared the false beard Zia kept pinning on the founder's otherwise clean-shaven face.
— Nadeem Farooq Paracha
An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.
— Zia Haider Rahman
That's another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you.
— Zia Haider Rahman
This is a miserable country, Zafar. I don't need to explain that to you. It needs help. Isn't it that simple?Is anything that simple? — Zia Haider Rahman
The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.
— Khaleda Zia
Oh, god," I said. "Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?"Sadie to Zia — Rick Riordan
My name is Zia Rashid.
— Rick Riordan
I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face."Sadie! Get up," Zia said.
"God!" I yelled. "Was that necessary?"
"No," admitted Zia. — Rick Riordan
Shigri boy lost his marbles in the end but the plane General Zia is about to board has enough VX gas on it to wipe out a village.
— Mohammed Hanif
I am too much of an imitator to be a true writer.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean.
— Zia Haider Rahman
We're not put on this earth to fuck around. We have to make something of our lives.
— Zia Haider Rahman
How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they've seen on the American movie screen?
— Zia Haider Rahman
You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean.
— Zia Haider Rahman
If I had my time again, I'd believe in reincarnation.
— Zia Haider Rahman
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
— Zia Haider Rahman
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool's errand.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Advisers were numberless in Kabul, like stray dogs in Mumbai.
— Zia Haider Rahman
When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench?
— Zia Haider Rahman
Autobiography, we know, is flawed from the moment the nib of the pen touches the parchment.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?
— Rick Riordan
Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?
— Zia Haider Rahman
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
— Khaleda Zia
Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.
— Zia Haider Rahman
What about King Tut's tomb?" I protested."That boy king?" Zia rolled her eyes. "Boring. You should see some of the good tombs. — Rick Riordan
Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.
— Zia Haider Rahman
that the truth is finer and that the only answers each of us hears are to the questions we are capable of asking.
— Zia Haider Rahman
Difficult questions can have simple answers.
— Zia Haider Rahman
The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
— Khaleda Zia
I'll let you and Zia have some quality time," she told me. "Just the two of you and your coat.
— Rick Riordan
If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.
— Khaleda Zia
What is the beginning of rage, the beginning of anger? Not dislike, but love.
— Zia Haider Rahman
