Ortanca Evleri Quotes & Sayings

To be chosen as the Beloved of God is something radically different. Instead of excluding others, it includes others. Instead of rejecting others as less valuable, it accepts others in their own uniqueness. It is not a competitive, but a compassionate choice. Our minds have great difficulty in coming to grips with such a reality. Maybe our minds will never understand it. Perhaps it is only our hearts that can accomplish this. Every time we hear about 'chosen people', 'chosen talents', or 'chosen friends', we almost automatically start thinking about elites and find ourselves not far from feelings of jealousy, anger, or resentment. Not seldom has the perception of others as being chosen led to aggression, violence, and war. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called me is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel like everything I've ever done in life has been a total waste. — Haruki Murakami

As I've been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won't tell you nothing about what's inside. That's where a fellow's mettle is, and that's what counts. — Richard Puz

Where are we going?"
Rhy's smile widened into a grin. "To Velaris - the City of Starlight. — Sarah J. Maas

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money. — Ben Jonson

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn't exist. — Keanu Reeves

Triumph comes through perserverance. — Jodi Thomas

I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English. — Dick King-Smith

Got a budget for the lawyer though. — Rick Ross

Children can be so cruel,' the Doctor said. 'Children's writers can be even worse. — Puffin

We live in a society that doesn't offer any support or appreciation for ventures that aren't clearly articulated and aligned for a goal. A writer gets past this. It's going to be a mess before you're finished, and you may not have a name for the mess or understand its utilitarian purposes. There aren't words for everything. For now, we'll call it the draft of a story. — Ron Carlson

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. — James M. Barrie

as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann