Ekmekler Quotes & Sayings

Never had there been a time when sound, color, and feeling hadn't been intertwined, when a dirty, rolling bass line hadn't induced violets that suffused him with thick contentment, when the shades of certain chords sliding up to one another hadn't produced dusty pastels that made him feel like he was cupping a tiny, golden bird. It wasn't just music but also rumbling trains and rainstorms, occasional voices, a collective din. Colors and textures appeared in front of him, bouncing in time to the rhythm, or he'd get a flash of color in his mind, an automatic sensation of a tone, innate as breathing. — Lisa Ko

You find out a lot about yourself through athletics. If you're cut out to be a winner or a failure or a quitter, athletics will bring it out of you. You're always stripping yourself down to the bones of your personality. And sometimes you just get a glimpse of the kind of talent you've been given. Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that. — Steve Ovett

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor — Theodore Parker

efforts and character of institutions like these can grow into a way of life when the people involved in them put them at the center of their cultural existence and identity and, as it were, fall into orbit around their rich moral core. — Yuval Levin

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home? — Tahir Shah

Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle. — Mahatma Gandhi

The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates the stains of his mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I would characterize current US nuclear weapons policy as immoral, illegal, militarily unnecessary, and dreadfully dangerous — Robert McNamara

Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire. — Shai Tubali

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down. — Danielle Steel

If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian. — Beverly Cleary

War has brought inflation even to the graveyard. — Saadat Hasan Manto

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire. — Ben Aaronovitch

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class. — Max Weber