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Top 25 Syed M. Masood Quotes (2025 Update)

Syed M. Masood Quote: “Checkers is the game of life,” she said. “Idiots will tell you that chess is, but it isn’t. That’s a game of war. Real life is like checkers. You try to make your way to where you need to go and to do it you’ve got to jump over people while they’re trying to jump over you and everyone is in each other’s way.”

1. “Checkers is the game of life,” she said. “Idiots will tell you that chess is, but it isn’t. That’s a game of war. Real life is like checkers. You try to make your way to where you need to go and to do it you’ve got to jump over people while they’re trying to jump over you and everyone is in each other’s way.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “How you begin things is important. This is true in checkers and in life, because at the beginning of things you are freer than you will ever be again. Once the game starts, every move you make is influenced by what someone else has done. The longer the game goes, the messier the board becomes, the more that influence grows. But the opening, Anvar, belongs to you.”

2. “How you begin things is important. This is true in checkers and in life, because at the beginning of things you are freer than you will ever be again. Once the game starts, every move you make is influenced by what someone else has done. The longer the game goes, the messier the board becomes, the more that influence grows. But the opening, Anvar, belongs to you.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “I am saying that you should read everyone else’s story with the same respect as you do your own.”

3. “I am saying that you should read everyone else’s story with the same respect as you do your own.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Clocks cannot measure time. They can count seconds, minutes and hours, but those are not accurate measures of our experience of time. A day of hunger is longer than a day when you’ve eaten. How quickly time passes isn’t constant. An hour can stretch out and seem unending. A year can pass you by before you know it.”

4. “Clocks cannot measure time. They can count seconds, minutes and hours, but those are not accurate measures of our experience of time. A day of hunger is longer than a day when you’ve eaten. How quickly time passes isn’t constant. An hour can stretch out and seem unending. A year can pass you by before you know it.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Humanity, as a whole, has a lot of practice in dealing with death. Only individuals struggle with it.”

5. “Humanity, as a whole, has a lot of practice in dealing with death. Only individuals struggle with it.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Anyone who didn’t look back, I realized then, was stone already.”

6. “Anyone who didn’t look back, I realized then, was stone already.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “I’m just saying, look for the truth. Look past the slogans and the spin and what people say their motivations are. Look at what they are actually trying to do, at the world they really want to create, and once you know the truth about them, if you still want to stand with them, to vote for them, go ahead.”

7. “I’m just saying, look for the truth. Look past the slogans and the spin and what people say their motivations are. Look at what they are actually trying to do, at the world they really want to create, and once you know the truth about them, if you still want to stand with them, to vote for them, go ahead.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “We don’t take from the world what we can’t give back to it.”

8. “We don’t take from the world what we can’t give back to it.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “You know, Anvar, people don’t understand these days,” he told me, “the real sacrifice. They think their offering is the money they spend on the animal. Or they think it is the life of the animal. But it isn’t. You are the sacrifice. What you are feeling now? That is your sacrifice. The lives of other creatures are not yours to take. Life is precious and to end one is final. Remember to never take more from the world than you can give back to it.”

9. “You know, Anvar, people don’t understand these days,” he told me, “the real sacrifice. They think their offering is the money they spend on the animal. Or they think it is the life of the animal. But it isn’t. You are the sacrifice. What you are feeling now? That is your sacrifice. The lives of other creatures are not yours to take. Life is precious and to end one is final. Remember to never take more from the world than you can give back to it.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Azza said something that’s been bothering me. She told me that there is no beauty left in this world. She’s not wrong, you know. Sometimes that is how life feels. It’s like there is nothing good, nothing noble, nothing precious left. Everywhere I look there is only pain and struggle and just a shadow over everything. You should know that I never feel that way when I am with you. You’re the light of my world. You make the universe beautiful.”

10. “Azza said something that’s been bothering me. She told me that there is no beauty left in this world. She’s not wrong, you know. Sometimes that is how life feels. It’s like there is nothing good, nothing noble, nothing precious left. Everywhere I look there is only pain and struggle and just a shadow over everything. You should know that I never feel that way when I am with you. You’re the light of my world. You make the universe beautiful.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “We live on stolen land,′ I finally said, ’in a country built on slavery and reliant on the continued economic exploitation of other people. The oppressor always lives in fear of the oppressed. Americans have always been afraid-of those native to this continent, of Black people, or Japanese citizens they interned, and now of Muslims and immigrants. So the real question, I think, is who is next?”

11. “We live on stolen land,′ I finally said, ’in a country built on slavery and reliant on the continued economic exploitation of other people. The oppressor always lives in fear of the oppressed. Americans have always been afraid-of those native to this continent, of Black people, or Japanese citizens they interned, and now of Muslims and immigrants. So the real question, I think, is who is next?”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Maybe. But you are different. You don’t fight others. You fight the Great Jihad. The Prophet said that the fight inside a man, the fight for his soul, is the greatest struggle of all, yes? The fight between the white brown man and the brown white man. The fight between the good bad man and the bad good man. I see it in you all the time.”

12. “Maybe. But you are different. You don’t fight others. You fight the Great Jihad. The Prophet said that the fight inside a man, the fight for his soul, is the greatest struggle of all, yes? The fight between the white brown man and the brown white man. The fight between the good bad man and the bad good man. I see it in you all the time.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “All men are created equal. Except not really, because some men are created American. Other men are created rich. Some men are created American and rich and are still not content with the world they inherit, so they try to change it. They try to make it more to their liking by painting it with blood and flame.”

13. “All men are created equal. Except not really, because some men are created American. Other men are created rich. Some men are created American and rich and are still not content with the world they inherit, so they try to change it. They try to make it more to their liking by painting it with blood and flame.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “That radical Islamists and “America First” nationalists had essentially the same worldview and the same desire to recapture a nostalgia-gilded past glory was proof, in my opinion, that God’s sense of irony was simply divine.”

14. “That radical Islamists and “America First” nationalists had essentially the same worldview and the same desire to recapture a nostalgia-gilded past glory was proof, in my opinion, that God’s sense of irony was simply divine.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind of life you led, whether your heart was full of love or joy or shrewdness or bile, all of this changed the nature of the water and, therefore, the look of your face. In this way, your face told the story of your life.”

15. “Someone in a mosque once told me about the water behind people’s faces. This water, he said, changed depending on what you did and what you believed, and as you got older it began to freeze. The kind of life you led, whether your heart was full of love or joy or shrewdness or bile, all of this changed the nature of the water and, therefore, the look of your face. In this way, your face told the story of your life.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “The world is difficult sometimes for restless minds and imaginative hearts. Things go easier for you if you do what you’re told, when you’re told, and never ask any questions.”

16. “The world is difficult sometimes for restless minds and imaginative hearts. Things go easier for you if you do what you’re told, when you’re told, and never ask any questions.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Experience, you see, can be lethal to certainty.”

17. “Experience, you see, can be lethal to certainty.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?” I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. “I’m an absolutely gorgeous face.”

18. “Tell me, Daynal Jilani, how exactly are you more than just a pretty face?” I gave her an adorable, irresistible grin. “I’m an absolutely gorgeous face.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “For Abu too,” I said. “The more guns, the better. We are Americans now.”

19. “For Abu too,” I said. “The more guns, the better. We are Americans now.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Should we be guided by our limits or our priorities?”

20. “Should we be guided by our limits or our priorities?”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “The lives of other creatures are not yours to take. Life is precious and to end one is final. Remember to never take more from the world than you can give back to it.”

21. “The lives of other creatures are not yours to take. Life is precious and to end one is final. Remember to never take more from the world than you can give back to it.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien.”

22. “That evil was the inability to recognize the humanity in experiences that were not your own, in experiences that seemed alien.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “The greatest reassurance of religion is the promise that there is someone out there – someone with all the power in the universe – who cares about you. He records your life, listens to your prayers and wants to ease your pain. The moment that I took God out of the equation, the world became too large, too cruel and too indifferent for me to live in. I decided then that there was a God. There had to be. I needed Him.”

23. “The greatest reassurance of religion is the promise that there is someone out there – someone with all the power in the universe – who cares about you. He records your life, listens to your prayers and wants to ease your pain. The moment that I took God out of the equation, the world became too large, too cruel and too indifferent for me to live in. I decided then that there was a God. There had to be. I needed Him.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “The sea speaks to you when you’re born by the ocean. It sings to you. If you stand still, just out of reach of the water for long enough, you begin to sense a small echo of the infinite inside yourself, and in the violent crashing and breaking of waves you begin to feel at peace. It was something I would miss.”

24. “The sea speaks to you when you’re born by the ocean. It sings to you. If you stand still, just out of reach of the water for long enough, you begin to sense a small echo of the infinite inside yourself, and in the violent crashing and breaking of waves you begin to feel at peace. It was something I would miss.”

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Syed M. Masood Quote: “Every kid from the subcontinent knows that there are three acceptable career paths you can walk down. You can become a doctor, you can become an engineer or, if you are painfully slow, you can study economics or finance.”

25. “Every kid from the subcontinent knows that there are three acceptable career paths you can walk down. You can become a doctor, you can become an engineer or, if you are painfully slow, you can study economics or finance.”

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