Kabatas Istanbul Quotes & Sayings

To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering. — John Milton

One who knows does not say it; one who says does not know it. Block the openings, Shut the doors, Soften the glare, Follow along old wheel tracks; Blunt the point, Untangle the knots. This is known as dark identity. Thus you cannot get close to it, nor can you keep it at arms length; you cannot bestow benefit on it, nor can you do it harm; you cannot ennoble it, nor can you debase it. Hence it is the most valued. — Lao-Tzu

I do really well under pressure. — Molly Sims

Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love. — Rashida Jones

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as every decent fellow must behave,' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that characterizes a man as a common man. Yet the common man does choose. He chooses to adopt traditional patterns or patterns adopted by other people because he is convinced that this procedure is best fitted to achieve his own welfare. And he is ready to change his ideology and consequently his mode of action whenever he becomes convinced that this would better serve his own interests. — Ludwig Von Mises

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books? — John James Audubon

I always admire people who have passion. — Lesley Nicol

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We've lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They're going to start having to, if I'm president, invest in this country - not in China, not in Mexico. — Bernie Sanders

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph. — Michael Scott

After a certain age you get the face you deserve. — Joan Collins

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment. — Michael Eric Dyson

Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of small minds! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Meanwhile, my dream for the future was that it wouldn't involve mass extinction and large-scale water shortages and cannibalism. — Dan Chaon