Bilirim T Rk Quotes & Sayings

Where I grew up, death is a constant visitor. A virus, bacteria, a parasite; drought and famine; soldiers, and torturers; could bring it to anyone, any time. Death comes riding on raindrops that turned to floods. It catches the imagination of men in positions of authority who order their subordinates to hunt, torture, and kill people they imagine to be enemies. Death lures many others to take their own lives in order to escape a dismal reality. For many women, because of the perception of lost honor, death comes at the hands of a father, brother, or husband. Death comes to young women giving birth to new life, leaving the newborn orphaned in the hands of strangers. For those who live in anarchy and civil war, as in the country of my birth, Somalia, death is everywhere. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

He's psychologically damaged, I suppose, if you stand back and look objectively at him, but then, who isn't? — Paul Darrow

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. — Jeff Bezos

Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's real easy to sit on your couch and point fingers and say, 'So-and-so did something wrong ... '. But until you are out there in these cars at these speeds and seeing all the near-misses and what is really going on, it is not worth forming an opinion. — Jimmie Johnson

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to further silence and compound the inequity — Janet Robertson

You. Are. Mine. That's it, that's all there is to it. — Suzanne Wright

The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you've never had, you must do something you've never done to get it. — John C. Maxwell

A deadly sin that brings no evil material sequel to the satisfaction afforded by committing it is one thing. A deadly sin that gives you the stomach-ache is quite another. — Rafael Sabatini

The arguments of religious men are so often insincere, and their insincerity is proportionate to their anger. Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself. — Thomas Merton

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for. — Plutarch

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. — Simon Wiesenthal

A country governed by a despot is an inverted cone. — Samuel Johnson