Sonra Konusalim Quotes & Sayings

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions. — George Bernard Shaw

If I had any talent God could give me, I would be a great diva — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

And snow - snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form more earth, I tell him. Think compost, says I. — Robert Fulghum

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. — Angela Carter

She could understand being so in love it robbed you of your balance, your judgment of good and evil, but she could not make the leap to acting out the passion or the violence as Elissa had. There was nothing worth winning at the cost of your own being, the soul, the integrity that was the core of who you were. The act of doing such a thing made it impossible for you to hold the good, even if you could grasp it for an instant. — Anne Perry

I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now. — Karin Slaughter

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it. — Raoul Vaneigem

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire. — Christopher Buckley

I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If I tell the Berliners to step forward, they do it. If I tell the Viennese to step forward, they do it, but then they ask why. — Herbert Von Karajan

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything. — Kenneth Edmonds

Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? — Kristin Cashore

To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in. — Milan Kundera