Mohsin Hamid Quotes

There are cultural reasons, economic competitiveness reasons. There are a lot of reasons why people are in poverty. The difference today is that increasingly they are in perpetual poverty.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

A man's character is his fate.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

To say that my anxiety is reducible to the ions in my amygdala is as limiting as saying that my personality or my soul is reducible to the molecules that make up my brain cells or to the genes that underwrote them.

It's to your advantage to work your brain as well as your body. The rest is up to fate.

Britain is now living with the consequences of allowing an underclass to take root and fester.

Death, disease, and divorce affect wealthy suburbs as well as the inner city.

It doesn't matter what color you are. Poverty is poverty. Inmates come from all walks of life. We have to make sure we look out for these people and give them a chance.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

Don't be deceived by life's outcomes. Life's outcomes, while not entirely random, have a huge amount of luck baked into them.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

Terrorism really flourishes in areas of poverty, despair and hopelessness, where people see no future

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

There's always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you're born a certain way, you're born in a certain location, you're born - country, there's always luck. And some people disagree that there's no such thing as luck, well, I'll take them on anytime you want.