Esnaf Odasi Quotes & Sayings

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen. — Terry Tempest Williams

The problem I have with socialist utopias is there's some kind of committees trying to soften outcomes for people. I think that imposes models of outcomes for other people's lives. So in a spiritual sense there's some bit of libertarian in me. But the critical thing for me is moderation. And if you let that go far you do end up with a winner-take-all society that ultimately crushes everybody even worse. — Jaron Lanier

Adversity and challenges are life's way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development. — Willie Jolley

Live for everything, or die for nothing — Nate Spears

The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment
not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed. — David Gerrold

But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. — Jose Mourinho

Do you want me to swear this time? Yes. Well, crap. — James Patterson

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance ... I'm going like a painting-locomotive. — Vincent Van Gogh

I believe that each fight teaches you something, and a new history is written in each fight. — Juan Manuel Marquez

You'll only fall if you doubt your balance. — Willa Okati

There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Wild birds will kill exotic ones: the budgies and the lovebirds and the yellow canaries
escaped from their cages and hoping to get a taste of the sky
usually end up back on the ground, plucked raw by their more conformist cousins — Joanne Harris

Because there are some things you have to do even if you are an enlightened liberal cop who knows all about sensitivity and everything! — Douglas Adams