Sahinler Makina Quotes & Sayings

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity. — Yusef Komunyakaa

When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth. — Therese Benedict

Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder. — J.K. Rowling

I've never been afraid of much, and like any normal kid, I liked to push the limits of what I could do. — Kacy Catanzaro

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories. — Elizabeth McCracken

I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me. — Christopher Knight

The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end. — Milton Friedman

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. — Benjamin Franklin

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. — Thomas Jefferson

My own interest in Yoga came from a vague understanding of Indian thought and Indian philosophy in the late sixties and early seventies and from looking at the idea of meditation and at what meditation was. — Paul Harvey

I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for. — Tom Watson

So that the monotonous fall of the waves on the beach, which for the most part beat a measured and soothing tattoo to her thoughts seemed consolingly to repeat over and over again ... — Virginia Woolf

The law of karma says that no matter what context I find myself in, it is neither my parents, nor my science teacher, nor the mailman, but I alone who have brought myself into this state because of my past actions. Instead of trapping me in a fatalistic snare, this gives me freedom. Because I alone have brought myself into my present condition, I myself, by working hard and striving earnestly, can reach the supreme state which is nirvana. — Eknath Easwaran

The six-man inquest jury assembled was composed of local residents, men whose lives strikingly resembled that of the murdered Robert Newsom. — Melton A. McLaurin

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration. — Bill Sienkiewicz