Defteri Kebir Quotes & Sayings

There are so many ships in the animation sea that are computer driven, that I think we can have at least one that's just a log raft that we can row by hand. — Hayao Miyazaki

The marquee scrolling across our minds trying to reinterpret life reads: "God-Against-Us." This becomes the dominant lens through which our flesh interprets life. We no longer give our loving Father the benefit of the doubt. Instead, we view every event as conclusive proof that God is against us. — James MacDonald

Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way. — Thomas Merton

I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply. — Ed Zern

Yeah, baby! And you are the magnet and I'm the steel! Bring to me your leather, take from me my lace! — Elizabeth Gilbert

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful. — John Hope Franklin

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play. — Nikki Giovanni

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. — W. H. Auden