Atatrk Kitapligi Quotes & Sayings

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. — Haruki Murakami

Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence. — Rosalynn Carter

The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. — Francis Bacon

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me. — Glenda Millard

Your mom's a discrepancy. — Katie Cook

We tend to search for happiness and love forgetting that both can be found when we stop searching for sadness and hate. — Hisham Fawzi

The call to be an elder is neither a call to mediocrity nor taking a title of honor while sending others on ahead. — Jonah Books

Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. — Spider Robinson

A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise. — Baha'u'llah

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. — Jose Bergamin

There was Augustus TwoFeathers McCoy, bug enough for three men, who ate enough for four men and who drank enough for five. — Neil Gaiman

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading. — Diana Gabaldon

It was strange that values should make such a flashing change. ...There was not one truth but many. Was it possible for anyone to be innocent of the death of one just man? — Barbara Euphan Todd

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know and feel and live, and all the things they don't know, and some of the things they hope, and they are honest about them all and put them on the canvas. What can be more serious? — Peter Heller