Muhtar Vedat Quotes & Sayings

As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence. — Thomas L. Dumm

The desert abandons anyone who lies down. From the moment a body is covered in sand, the wind, like memory, begins to exhume it. And so the Bedouin and other desert tribes dig deeper graves for their women, a discretion.
Perhaps this is another reason for the immensity of the desert tombs, the sheer weight and mass of rock hauled and piled- ingeniously piled, yet piled all the same- at the gravesites of the kings.
In the desert we remain still and the earth moves beneath us. — Anne Michaels

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition. — Samuel Johnson

People always seem to be interested in my private life because I'm married to a pop star. — Jamie Redknapp

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in. — Marty Robbins

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. — Charles Kettering

The worse things are, the more they play philosopher. The more obvious the nonsense, the profounder their thoughts. The more lawlessness there is, the more laws. The more widespread the chaos, the more insistent their love of symmetry. — Tadeusz Konwicki

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them. — Melina Marchetta

I think that musicians should never forget about the intimacy of bringing two people together, and the aesthetic transference where you're almost vicariously involved in a romance between other people. — Joe Williams

Draw a line in the sand. "I will no longer be a stumbling block for my husband." With God's help, you'll find yourself being supportive, encouraging. You become his partner rather than his opponent. This attitude of obedience unfolds blessings without end, reaching your heart, his, your children, and the watching world. — Amy Williams

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. — Marian Wright Edelman

I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer. — Nigel Kennedy

And that's how I got to go to a birthday party while very heavily sedated. — Allie Brosh

I don't think I can; I know i will. — Vikrmn

The room grew suddenly several degrees darker, for the wind seemed to be driving waves of darkness across the earth. No one attempted to eat for a time, but sat looking out at the garden, with their forks in the air. The flashes now came frequently, lighting up faces as if they were going to be photographed, surprising them in tense and unnatural expressions. — Virginia Woolf