Turans Quotes & Sayings

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Kern Feibleman

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. — Alfred De Musset

I always was and always will be optimistic. — Preston Sturges

Happiness is what you trample over when you are looking for it — Eric Amidi

For ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures. A world not fixable; not fathomable! An unfathomable Somewhat, which is Not me; which we can work with, and live amidst
and model, miraculously in our miraculous Being, and name World. — Thomas Carlyle

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. — John Lescroart

Basically, it says that the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job - is try to put the pieces back together. To make things whole again. — Rachel Cohn

To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!' — Langston Hughes

Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered, — Howe Gelb

I Cannot Remember You
... engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide — Muse

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. — David Stockman

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. — Pankaj Mishra