Kara Mahmut Pasha Quotes & Sayings

Why can't I talk to her?"
"Because you're not a handsome young man."
"Well, neither is he! — Chris D'Lacey

Today ... no performance can be without its control screen video ... its goal is to be hooked up to itself ... the mirror phase has given way to the video phase. What develops around the video or stereo culture is not a narcissistic imaginary, but an effect of frantic self-referentiality, a short-circuit which immediately hooks up like with like, and, in doing so, emphasizes their surface intensity and deeper meaninglessness. — Jean Baudrillard

What did you do?"
"What makes you think I did something?"
Chris snorted. "You're the guy. Of course it's your fault. Even when it's not your fault, it's your fault. — R.L. Mathewson

Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money. — Sonia Faleiro

There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought. And though I knew that England then was groaning loudest under the prelatical yoke, nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness, that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty. Yet was it beyond my hope that those worthies were then breathing in her air, who should be her leaders to such a deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. — John Milton

In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century's wars combined. — John Shattuck

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared. — Hilma Wolitzer

To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret. — Alexander Pope

Kings kill; jesters don't; therefore the jesters of the kings are more valuable than the kings! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one. — Ravi Zacharias