Orhan's Inheritance Quotes & Sayings

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated. — Peter Drucker

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end. — Hafez

Heaven gives its favourites-early death. — Lord Byron

It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place. — Julie Kagawa

Love rationally.
Love religiously.
Love resiliently.
Love rejoicingly. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good. — Adam Levine

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed. — Will Rogers

If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen. — Alan W. Watts

There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. — Christina Hendricks

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason. — Gottfried Leibniz

I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment. — John Cage

I love the cause that slew me — Emily Dickinson

One such time I left town and on my way back, at a point where the land was high and I could see the sea to my left and down the road a long ways, I suddenly felt I was in heaven. The spot was in fact no different from when I had passed it not long before, but my way of seeing it had changed. The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and blissful. Whereas before the road, the sea, the trees, the air, the sun all spoke differently to me, now they spoke one language of unity. Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shared things with sun. Every element lived in harmonious relation with its neighbor, and all was kith and kin. I knelt a mortal; I rose an immortal. I felt like the center of a small circle coinciding with the center of a much larger one. — Yann Martel