Yeshim Korkmaz Quotes & Sayings

Together, my parents had learned to be much more than "the sum of their parts", whatever that means.
Separately, they were kind of just a mess. — Brian K. Vaughan

With Me, I want the Bank of America to know that I'm fucking alive. — Jason Myers

Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious 'right' a revolution was fought. — Octave Mirbeau

What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people. — Barbara Brown Taylor

What you accept is what you'll always be given. Stop accepting their crumbs — Tijan

In there?'
She nodded.
'You want us to go into the tortoise?'
Another nod.
'It's alive.'
Another nod. — Ilona Andrews

That's the point of working with one's hands, you see. It gives the mind something else to do besides worry. — Charles Todd

The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone. — Andre Alexis

I did not go to film school. — Richard King

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat. — Mark Twain

This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end. — Peter F. Hamilton

I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway. — Shimon Peres

And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard. — Swami Vivekananda