Ibn Pasha

"This is déjà-vu all over again”!"

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:35:41 -0400

““This is déjà-vu all over again”!”

- Yogi Bera

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:48:49 -0400

“Ambition is not a vice of little people”

- Michel de Montaigne

"We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:32:09 -0400

“We make our decisions. And then our decisions turn around and make us.”

- P.W. Bornum

The Qauid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Jammu & Kashmir

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:12:56 -0400

The Qauid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on Jammu & Kashmir

"A lady never removes her hat in a gentleman’s car"

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:35:42 -0400

“A lady never removes her hat in a gentleman’s car”

- Hector Madden, in the The Hour

"KBO - Keep buggering on"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:57:21 -0400

“KBO - Keep buggering on”

- Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA

"To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power!"

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:44:36 -0400

“To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power!”

- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when men are afraid of..."

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:54:02 -0400

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light”

- Plato

"The absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence"

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:28:14 -0400

““The absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence””

- Donald H. Rumsfeld

"I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It..."

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:51:15 -0400

““I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity.””

- George Bernard Shaw

"True Friends stab you in the front"

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:10:34 -0400

““True Friends stab you in the front””

- Oscar Wilde

"You are aided by aiding the weak among you."

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:48:03 -0400

““You are aided by aiding the weak among you.””

- The Prophet of God (May Peace be upon him)

"The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced. The arrogance of the..."

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:54:57 -0400

“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced. The arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn’t wish to go bankrupt.”

- Cicero (55 BCE)

(via nettra)

nettra: ‎”Can Google + be a good platform for social change...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:50:49 -0400

nettra:

‎”Can Google + be a good platform for social change activists? Short answer: too early to tell.” via @SebLindstrom

Truth.

I suspect where Twitter is concerned, we are at the “slope of enlightenment,” no?

(via Google for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait? | Beth’s Blog)

"Our object should be, peace within and peace without"

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:50:04 -0400

“Our object should be, peace within and peace without””

- the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, during a speech at Pakistan’s founding (14th August 1947)

"There are two kinds of men who have been a great burden to me: the ignorant who are religious and..."

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:48:00 -0400

““There are two kinds of men who have been a great burden to me: the ignorant who are religious and the knowledgeable who are immoral!”

- Ali Ibn Abu Talib (KW)

nettra: Love this shot. May your Ramadan be peaceful and...

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:34:52 -0400

nettra:

Love this shot. May your Ramadan be peaceful and blessed.

A man reads the Koran on the first day of Ramadan while taking shelter from rain on a sidewalk in Lahore August 2.

(/Mohsin Raza/Reuters)

Thanks @pforti for posting a photo from Boston.com’s Big Picture. Love their photo essays.

(via Ramadan begins - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Former US Intel chief qants drone strikes to end in Pak

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:34:34 -0400

Former US Intel chief qants drone strikes to end in Pak

"A carpet is large enough to accommodate two sufis, but the world is not large enough for two Kings."

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:23:51 -0400

“A carpet is large enough to accommodate two sufis, but the world is not large enough for two Kings.”

- “Yavuz” Selim I, Ottoman Sultan 1512-1520 C.E

"The American dollar “is our currency, but your problem."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:25:48 -0400

“The American dollar “is our currency, but your problem.””

- US Treasury Secretary under Nixon John Connally Jr famously quipped at a delegation of Europeans worried about exchange rate fluctuations.