Alpaslan Toker Quotes & Sayings

The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which they constantly enjoy towards their equals and in the intercourse of private life, tends to make them look upon all authority with a jealous eye, and speedily suggests to them the notion and the love of political freedom. Men living at such times have a natural bias to free institutions. Take any one of them at a venture, and search if you can his most deep-seated instincts; and you will find that, of all governments, he will soonest conceive and most highly value that government whose head he has himself elected, and whose administration he may control. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't. — Ruby Elliot

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I use to drink every day without a care until I released the Demons that now I must bare — Stanley Victor Paskavich

People don't want to be plagued by not knowing-they want answers. — Michael Pitt

Cars like that shouldn't be left in storage. It causes mechanical issues. With brakes and tires and engines and such."
My smile returned. "You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?"
"Not a word. — Kelley Armstrong

Behold congenial Autumn comes, the Sabbath of the Year. — John Logan

If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real? — Megan Miranda

For the same work, dudes get paid more — Rachel Maddow

Why don't you put that in the headline: 'He Only Did Three With Doris!' Set a lot of people straight. — Rock Hudson

Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented. — Alice Cooper

The specific question was visa overstays.Current federal law requires a biometric exit-entry system when you come in on a visa. And the [Barack] Obama administration is just ignoring federal law. Forty percent of illegal immigration is not people who cross the borders illegally. It's people who come legally on a visa and never leave. — Ted Cruz

It's so hard to find a male to gratify one's artistic tastes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

An uneducated, half-brained serving boy with a hangover could make mock of you. I am left with no need to exert myself, and your very nature makes mockery of my mockery. And so it is that through sheer stupidity you make me look incompetent. — Brandon Sanderson

Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. — Steven Pinker