Hikayeler Quotes & Sayings

Vannevar Bush has said that there is no more thrilling experience for a man than to be able to state that he has learned something no other person in the world has ever known before him. ... I have been lucky enough to be included in such an event. — Kenneth Franklin

Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you. — Fumio Obata

I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in. — Nicole Krauss

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade. — Gwyneth Paltrow

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvelous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. — Joseph Heller

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I seen a man grab hold to a fellow and cut off his arm. Cut it off at the shoulder. He had to work at it a while...but he cut it clean off. The man looked down saw his arm gone and started crying. After that he more dangerous with that one arm than the other man is with two. He got less to lose. There's a lot of one-arm men walking around. — August Wilson

Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience — Christopher Marshall

Kenya's M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf. — Bill Gates

But since the will of man could turn either way, God secured this grace that He had given by making it conditional from the first upon two things--namely, a law and a place. He set them in His own paradise, and laid upon them a single prohibition. If they guarded the grace and retained the loveliness of their original innocence, then the life of paradise should be theirs, without sorrow, pain or care, and after it the assurance of immortality in heaven. But if they went astray and became vile, throwing away their birthright of beauty, then they would come under the natural law of death and live no longer in paradise, but, dying outside of it, continue in death and in corruption. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

I didn't want to frighten you. I only tell you now because if you leave, I cannot guarantee your safety even with a guard posted.
Then I'll take extra care myself and rely on the Lord. — Laura Frantz

My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern. — Benoit B. Mandelbrot

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants. — Ambrose Bierce

A dreamer of distant lands and lover of different cultures — Unknown