Hodja Nasreddin Quotes & Sayings

But the hardest is watching your son watching his friend die. — Jesse Andrews

I still play music for the same reasons as when I first started; for the energy, the feeling, the interaction with others. Not for the money, ego or greed. — Jason Newsted

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill. — George Bernard Shaw

'Cover Me.' 'Take Time To Know Her.' 'Warm and Tender Love.' 'Out Of Left Field.' 'Dark End Of The Street.' 'Tears Me Up.' 'My Special Prayer.' All points back to one song. 'When A Man Loves A Woman.' The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will. — Percy Sledge

More than any other politician in recent memory, Bernie Sanders is focused on reality. It's the rest of us who are lost. — Matt Taibbi

It's not an effort contest, it's an art contest. As customers, we care about ourselves, about how we feel, about whether a product or service or play or interaction changed us for the better. Where it's made or how it's made or how difficult it was to make is sort of irrelevant. That's why emotional labor is so much more valuable than physical labor. Emotional labor changes the recipient, and we care about that. Soft — Seth Godin

I couldn't wait to go home. — R.J. Palacio

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments. — Isaac Newton

I haven't tried to buffer myself. I like rolling the dice. — Kevin Costner

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through. — Charlie Kaufman

Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think — Yuval Noah Harari

In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries. Like "The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja," which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders — Elif Shafak