Alaattin Cakici Quotes & Sayings

You'd better have a damn good platonic reason why you're in my sister's apartment."
"Really? I'm devastated that I can't provide you with one. — Suzanne Wright

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue. — Mike Bickle

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity! — Helen H. Gardener

That's the best part. The how. — Jessi Kirby

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next. — E. M. Forster

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. — K.E. Garvey

What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what we have felt, they present our experiences more poignantly and intelligently than we have been able; they give shape to aspects of our lives that we recognise as our own, yet could never have understood so clearly on our own. They explain our condition to us, and thereby help us to be less lonely with, and confused by it. — Alain De Botton

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving. — Bridget Hall

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life. — Jake Simmons Jr.

Though "instincts" or "drives" can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own. They — C. G. Jung

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed. — Richard A. Falk