Veyahut Nasil Quotes & Sayings

How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them. — Confucius

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come. — Bernard Baruch

I'm much more comfortable speaking through my characters' voices than my own. — Amy Adams

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser

People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002. — Andrew Mack

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends. — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it. — Franz Kafka