Julide Ates Quotes & Sayings

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight. — Martin Van Creveld

I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour. — Al Madrigal

You have to remember, William. It may make the difference between freedom and half a lifetime in prison. — Kenneth Eade

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall ... — Rick Bragg

Inwardly, I gouged my eyes out. — Becca Fitzpatrick

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. — Criss Jami

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights. — Amit Ray

Gary's immediate thought was that either this woman wasn't planning on wearing much in the way of clothing for the duration of her stay, or she liked to wear clothes repeatedly until they were ripe. — Phil Wohl

You are both a work of art and an artist at work. — Erwin McManus

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow. — Lea Michele

In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them...Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain...a collective corona that still glows. - Douglas Hofstadter — Lauren Redniss

Liberation from constraints that operate at the level of ordinary humanity
limits imposed by space and time, by the needs of the body, and by the opaqueness of the computer-like mind. All three examples [Jacob Lorber, Edgar Cayce, and Therese Neumann] illustrates the paradoxical truth that such 'higher powers' cannot be acquired by any kind of attack or conquest conducted by the human personality; only when the striving for 'power' has entirely ceased and been replaced by a certain transcendental longing, often called the love of God, may they, or may they not be 'added unto you. — E.F. Schumacher