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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"An honourable man is fair even to his enemies, a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!"
"Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen."
"It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region."
"Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered."
"The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey."
"No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!"
"However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone."
"After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq."
"The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!"
"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!"
"Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!"
"When the lost doesn't want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!"
"After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy."
"The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!"
"The dust cannot fight against the wind, the wind cannot fight against the mountain. Everything and everyone has a battle to lose!"
"Environmental pollution is not only humanity's treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!"
"Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days!"
"If you think that you are living in a stupid country, you can be sure that you are being governed by the most stupid people!"
"The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony."
"Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!"
"If you are not happy with your life, it is most probably because you have eagle eyes to see the negative parts of your life and almost blind to the beautiful side!"
"In action is the worst action of human beings!"
"My mood, as I identify with each of my heroes, resembles what I used to feel when I played alone as a child. Like all children, I liked to play make-believe, to put myself in someone else's place and imagine dream worlds in which I was a soldier, a famous soccer player, or a great hero."
"I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously."
"If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos!"
"Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration."
"Inaction is the worst action of human beings!"
"A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold, the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver."
"A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!"
"If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!"
"In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime."
"Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?"
"By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!"
"The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!"
"If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!"
"If the weather is sunny, it is good; if the weather is rainy, it is good; if it is foggy, it is good; if it is stormy, it is good; if it is damn cold, it is good; if it is damn hot, it is good! With a positive attitude of mind, all becomes good!"
"Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man's life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!"
"Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!"
"Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country."
"In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beautiful throats, and even, if what Ive heard is true, a portion of their gorgeous legs; as a result, the men of those cities walk about with great difficulty, embarrassed and in extreme pain, because, you see, their front sides are always erect and this fact naturally leads to the paralysis of their society. Undoubtedly, this is why each day the Frank infidel surrenders another fortress to us Ottomans."
"To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!"
"Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached."
"The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game."
"We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures."
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
"Tragedy is not the second face of the life, but it is the very first face of it!"
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