Istanbulive Quotes & Sayings

Each generation was a rehearsal of the one before, so that that family gradually formed the repetitive pattern of a Greek fret, interrupted only once in two centuries by a nine-year-old boy who had taken a look at his prospects, tied a string around his neck with a brick to the other end, and jumped from a footbridge into two feet of water. Courage aside, he had that family's tenacity of purpose, and drowned, a break in the pattern quickly obliterated by the calcimine of silence. — William Gaddis

Luckily, the clever pets had managed to escape. — Daisy Meadows

What marriage is for: It is a way for two spiritual friends to help each other on their journey to become the persons God designed them to be. — Timothy Keller

Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone. — Michelle Franklin

Broadway will give any beggar a cup of coffee and a sandwich, but it demands persistence of those who go after the big stakes. — Napoleon Hill