Contemporary Turkish Literature Quotes & Sayings

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again — Mark Twain

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Men conscious of inferiority are always trying to impose themselves on others, because they know that underneath they are cowards or cretins. — Helen Simpson

What is adolescence without trash? — Evelyn Waugh

There was joy in getting his blood pressure down ... joy in climbing Mount Everest ... joy in reaching the summits of six more of the world's highest mountains ... joy in building a profitable company providing houses that people could turn into homes ... joy in learning to fly. But he will also tell you there has been no joy as great as giving from what God has blessed him with so that he might bless and serve others. That's the true and ultimate purpose of setting and reaching goals. — Zig Ziglar

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility. — Charmian Clift

Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Behind every person who's committed an unimaginable crime is an adult who committed unimaginable violence against them as a child. All of them, as if it was plotted that way. Violence begets violence, and that violence begets even more violence. — Gong Ji-young

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure and spiritually strong and educated, then alone will misery cease in the world, not before. We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes. — Swami Vivekananda

Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for ... you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'.
Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character? — Sara Shepard