Ergenekon Quotes & Sayings

Children are notoriously literal readers, and I was no exception. Books, I believed, contained the entire truth about everything, and if you could just read every book or even a good chunk of the Truly Important Ones, you would know what you needed to know about real life. And you could be a part of it. Naturally, I got a lot of things wrong. — Pamela Paul

I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun. — Naomi Watts

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio

One night, returning to the house, he went into his father's shed. He stared at the unsold pots and the vases on the shelves, at their shapes and their designs, the illustrations of landscapes. He wondered what would become of them. He reached for one, then hesitated. He thought of them staying here, untouched, through the seasons and the years. He thought of the ones people had purchased, scattered throughout the country. He imagined that somewhere underneath the glaze and the paint there remained his father's hands. That they contained the heat of a kiln and a home that no longer existed. He wondered whether he would be able to recognize them if he saw them again. — Paul Yoon

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind. — Al-Hanouf Halawi

All I cared about in tennis was winning. — Pete Sampras

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match. — David Gemmell

Say she had nefarious motives."
Davis looked over at Jack with a bemused grin. "Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a
Yale boy."
"You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering," Jack said.
"What's glowering?"
"Me, apparently. — Julie James

an uncertain mythology
in which one hears the names
when the wind stops
of all the false gods — Jean Follain

In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction. — Gaston Bachelard

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it. — Nora Ephron

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand. — Arnold Ross

When we paint the picture of our salvation for others to see, we may use different colors, textures, and shapes on the edges of the parchment. But in the center can only be a cross. Anything else cheapens grace and cheats the believer. — Beth Moore

Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer. — Y.S. Lee