Adib Khan Quotes

“I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.”

“If manifestations of her love are overwhelming and sometimes seem imprudent, it’s because the intensity of such caring doesn’t exist in other areas of life. Ma does not love from behind a protective shield. I’m incapable of opening up to people in the way she does. Ma isn’t afraid of being vulnerable and doesn’t measure relationships in terms of what she can gain. If her feelings are hurt, she doesn’t hide the pain or seek revenge. She stumbles over the setback as though it’s one of life’s quirky tests of fortitude and moves on without storing any resentment.”

“I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It’s a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.”

“Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.”

“I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.”

“I am the rightful khan of the nation. I am the gur-khan. My word is iron and my word is law.”

“For the khan, we will take their cities, their women, and their lands. This is the great raid, the farthest strike in the history of the nation of Genghis. We will not be stopped.”

“If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.”

“Imran Khan says 'End your ego, think of nation”

“My tears of joyhear the raindrops crying,as the rain never wants to pourdown on my cloudy dayswhen I makeour love-dreamsfor the sun to dreamonly for you....(From the poem "Only For You" By Munia Khan)”