Modern Turkish Writers Quotes & Sayings

I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy? — W. Somerset Maugham

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken! — Pat Robertson

What is democracy? If it is the rule of the majority, ignoring the rest, then it is not good, it is very bad! But if it is the rule of the whole citizens, caring the wills of both the majority and the rest, then it is good, then it is real democracy! And the purpose of every real democracy is to be a modern country, to be a modern structure! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something. — Erno Rubik

To settle in for the long haul, equipped with basic versions of the serums to help them control their — Veronica Roth

[On Bonnie Prince Charlie:] Oh, Charlie is my darling, / My darling, my darling; / Oh, Charlie is my darling, / The young Chevalier. — Carolina Nairne

Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

On a dais in a London church, the Virgin Mary sits suprised by a rough crest of candlelight. The discomforture isn't in her expression but in the fluid form her carving takes, the way peaceful eyes rest in sockets that threaten to release them. Either the wood is eccentrically soft, or this sculpture remains a tree, alert
(despite careful varnishing and a wide, warning ring of sacred space around it)
to a propensity to burn. — Helen Oyeyemi

What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing. — Caroline Kepnes

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned. — Matt Berninger

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier. — Melissa McCarthy

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan