Beklerim Quotes & Sayings

I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time. — Kid Rock

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan

Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were. — Ovid

Constitutional rights are useful up to a point, but they do not serve to guarantee much more than what could be called the bourgeois conception of freedom. According to the bourgeois conception, a "free" man is essentially an element of a social machine and has only a certain set of prescribed and delimited freedoms; freedoms that are designed to serve the needs of the social machine more than those of the individual. — Theodore Kaczynski

Only the insane take themselves seriously. — Max Beerbohm

Honesty has always worked for me. — Katy Perry

may the gods be with you — Rick Riordan

Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest ... For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. — Kim Krizan

She doesn't know what to say. She feels quietly furious with him, while conscious that she has no right to be. What has he ever promised her, after all? — Jojo Moyes

No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their emulation models from among the oppressors. The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption (Freire, 1970, p. 54). — Paulo Freire

There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together. — Johnny Damon

I don't know if it's revolutionary not to work," she had told me, "but it's better. When you sell your body you are what you do. You're yourself and you get paid for it," or so she had thought at the time, — Rachel Kushner

Pessimists are born, true, but they also can be made. — David Rakoff

My soul remembered him, my heart connected with him but time had separated him from wanting me right now. — Nikki Rowe