Ahmed Sencer Quotes & Sayings

You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely. — Lucretius

Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should. — Jack London

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God. — Terri Blackstock

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups! — Alexandre Dumas

I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me. — Diane Paulus

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess. — W. Somerset Maugham

How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks. — Lorrie Moore

Old pond - frogs jumped in - sound of water — Basho Matsuo

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. — Robert Frost

Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for it. Every night he'd counted the days of his stretch - how many had passed, how many were coming. And then he'd grown bored with counting. And then it became clear that men like him wouldn't ever be allowed to return home, that they'd be exiled. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it. — Henry Miller

It feels kind of cool to come back from work every day without having killed anybody. — Hallgrimur Helgason

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity. — David Christian

Promised his love to keep her quiet - that he had never — Rudyard Kipling