Volkan Konak Quotes & Sayings

ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation. — Sherif Girgis

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual. — Justin Theroux

Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives. — Frederick Lenz

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security. — Tom Stoppard

I had a ritual - and having any ritual sounded so mature that I told everyone about it, even the regulars. On my days off I woke up late and went to the coffee shop and had a cappuccino and read. Then around five p.m., when the light was failing, I would take out a bottle of dry sherry and pour myself a glass, take out a jar of green olives, put on Miles Davis, and read the wine atlas. I didn't know why it felt so luxurious, but one day I realized that ritual was why I had moved to New York - to eat olives and get tipsy and read about Nebbiolo while the sun set. I had created a life that was bent in service to all my personal cravings. — Stephanie Danler

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it? — David Levithan

My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn't go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success. — John Legend

And when Siddhartha was listening attentively to this river, this song of a thousand voices, when he neither listened to the suffering nor the laughter, when he did not tie his soul to any particular voice and submerged his self into it, but when he heard them all, perceived the whole, the oneness, then the great song of the thousand voices consisted of a single word, which was Om: the perfection. — Hermann Hesse

I do not believe in a Science that cannot wipe the tears of a widow, or bring a piece of bread to the starving mouth of an orphan. However sophisticated may be the scientific achievements, however well-spun may be the philosophy behind them, I do not call them Science, unless they are put to practice in the pursuit of easing the sufferings of the human society. — Abhijit Naskar

How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Now Chloe, Tara, and Maddie were real sisters instead of strangers. Friends, even. — Jill Shalvis

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic. — Ludwig Quidde

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically. — Mark Takano

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy. — Nancy Willard