Vildan Vatansever Quotes & Sayings

Even if she were going crazy, she didn't want to look like she was going crazy. — Rick Riordan

The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on. — Nancy Reagan

To people from 'Brooklyn-Brooklyn' North Brooklyn is really just South Queens. — Dallas Athent

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. — Chief Seattle

NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly. — Bertolt Brecht

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference. — Naveen Jain

I do not limit God by seeing limitation in myself. With God and myself all things are possible. — Florence Scovel Shinn

Americans feel that this federal city belongs to them, but if they lay claim to the national treasures, they can't deny their collective responsibility for the other Washington where drugs, murder, and poverty are testaments to the nation's failure. Washington is America's city, in glorious myth and tragic reality. — Harry S. Jaffe

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god. — William Shakespeare

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets. — Robert Dallek

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns. — Victor Hugo

Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on. — Nazim Hikmet

Dialectics is the philosophy of opposites."
I thought about this. "How do you make a philosophy out of opposites?"
"Well, you know how people are. They like to see things in black and white? Up or down, male or female?"
She had my attention now. "Uh-huh."
"Well, dialectics says that's all bullshit. That life is not about opposites, but about finding the balance between all these extremes."
I tried to sound less interested than I actually was. "How do you do that?" I said. "Find balance, I mean?"
"By paying attention," she said. "By trying to see how everything also contains its opposite." She took a drag on her cigarette. "Because if you live your life at the extremes, you go nuts. If you want to make any sense out of the world, you have to live in the gray."
"That sounds hard," I said.
"The hell yes it's hard," she said. "People don't like gray. It makes people uncomfortable. — Jennifer Finney Boylan

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic. — Gus Van Sant