Cevat Abbas Quotes & Sayings

It's funny how the night that changes your life forever starts out like all the others. — Marisha Pessl

Perfection is fragile; interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril. — Sharon Salzberg

You can't count on friends. They will always let you down. — Rick Riordan

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful. — Alfred Adler

If your life is all about screwing things and getting hammered, then congratulations, you're a tool. — Anonymous

There is a cold war on the go. America and Russia are competing for the hearts and minds of Indians, Iraquies, Nigerians; scholarships to universities are among the inducements they offer. — J.M. Coetzee

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. — Zane Grey

A real spirituality must be rooted in earthliness. Any spirituality that denies the earth, rejects the earth, becomes abstract, becomes airy-fairy. It has no more blood in it; it is no more alive. Yes, Jews are very earth-bound. And what is wrong in having money? One should not be possessive; one should be able to use it. And Jews know how to use it! One should not be miserly. Money has to be created and money has to be used. Money is a beautiful invention, a great blessing, if rightly used. It makes many things possible. Money is a magical phenomenon. — Rajneesh

The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

[T]he only means I have to stop ignorant snobs from behaving towards genre fiction with snobbish ignorance is to not reinforce their ignorance and snobbery by lying and saying that when I write SF it isn't SF, but to tell them more or less patiently for forty or fifty years that they are wrong to exclude SF and fantasy from literature, and proving my arguments by writing well. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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