Necdet Quotes & Sayings

You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think. — Debasish Mridha

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you. — Tori Amos

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner

'Freedom of belief and worship is the most important guarantee of social peace. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner

It's not how hard of a punch you can throw, it's how hard of a punch you can take. — Seamus McGraw

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Have you ever looked at a map of our country, Necdet?' Green Headscarf says. 'It's a map of the human mind. We're split by water over two continents, Europe and Anatolia. We are seven per cent Europe, ninety-three per cent Asia. Conscious Thrace, unconscious, pre-conscious, sub-concious Anatolia. And Istanbul - have you ever seen a neuron, Necdet? A brain cell? The marvel is that the synapses don't touch. There is always a gap - there must a gap, otherwise consciousness would not exist. The Bosphorus is that synaptic cleft. Potential can flow across the cleft. It's the cleft that makes consciousness possible. — Ian McDonald

As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us. — Sarah Vowell

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities. — Wendell Berry

No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself. — Deepak Chopra

They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes. — Swami Vivekananda

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know. — Wolfman Jack

Music is painted upon a canvas of silence. Mozart used to say, "Silence is the greatest effect in music. — Josef Lhevinne

I love my son more than any of you can imagine. — Adrian Peterson

We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our political life and the supremacy of the law becomes an integral part of our state's structure. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society. — Ahmet Necdet Sezner

If God truly were inside you, could you bear to look at it? Necdet says. — Ian McDonald

Jeremy never gave any indication that he saw me as anything other than David's little sister. I've been chasing after Jeremy since about a month after my brother — Stacey Lewis

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up. — Rachel Joyce

My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood ... And they're huge human-turtles!! — Jason Reeves

I get a fair amount of time between projects, which is great. It takes me awhile to start getting nervous about getting another job again. I don't mind having a lot of down time. I'm pretty lazy. So I really don't mind it. But I'm lucky; I work fairly steadily. I'm lucky that I've managed to do that. — Paul Giamatti