Istanbuldan Bolu Quotes & Sayings

When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows. — Tristan Bernard

To use the term 'clerk' as an insult is simply a banal vulgarity; Pessoa and Svevo, however would have welcomed it as a just attribute of the poet. The latter does not resemble Achilles or Diomedes, ranting on their war-chariots, but is more like Ulysses, who knows that he is no one. He manifests himself in this revelation of impersonality that conceals him in the prolixity of things, as travelling erases the traveller in the confused murmur of the street. — Claudio Magris

She couldn't believe how quickly life could change. How could she have known when she'd woken up that morning that today was the day she'd fall in love? — Cecily Von Ziegesar

There's a meeting in Command. Disregard your current schedule,' he says.
'Done,' I say.
'Did you follow it at all today?' he asks in exasperation.
'Who knows? I'm mentally disoriented.' I hold up my wrist to show my medical bracelet and realize it's gone.
'See? I can't even remember they took my bracelet.'
(Katniss and Boggs) — Suzanne Collins

If no words come, you can always give him the finger. — Simone Elkeles

You've got nothing that lasts, you know. That's not the first town that ever stood there. There was one before that, and one before that, and one before that one, on back for 900 years. But this tree has stood here all along. What do you make of that, boy? — Natalie Babbitt

There's daggers in men's smiles — William Shakespeare

Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. — George Santayana

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask. — Benjamin Franklin

[ ... ] we call could be used, not just when we're broken, but especially because we're broken. — Bob Goff

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment. — J. C. Watts

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality. — William R. Inge

They forget that the vampaneze were once our brothers, that by destroying them, we destroy a part of ourselves. Most vampire never realize how pointless and savage war truly is. You were smart enough to see through the truth. Don't ever forget it. — Darren Shan

On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors. — A.S. Byatt

I can't tell which is the worse fate--to question everything, to be paralyzed by indecision, or to question nothing and move through the world blind to any other way of existing save for your own. — Laura Thalassa