Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 25

Your culture is your limit; if you can’t go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a choice is given to us between being mortal and being immortal, you will find no one in the group of mortals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Universe is a giant with his body and we humans are a giant with our minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The future is in the skies.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Since the future is unknown, no path can take you to the known!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?
Orhan Pamuk
The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.
Dani Rodrik
You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.
Mehmet Murat ildan
İnsanoğlu nedense anlayamadığı şeylere kötülemeye meyilli.
Elif Shafak
At this stage I can see most of the men are still primitive about sexual perception and conception.
Baris Gencel
Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is only one autumn in a year, but in people’s life, there are many autumns in one year!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man is born to the world of chaos and all his life passes with struggle to create an order!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first step; it is the first action; it is the first move before any move, it is the first of everything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every lesson you take from your past immediately turns into a stairs to the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A victory with so many victims is nothing but the biggest defeat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit the port of goodness often; if you can, cast your anchor over there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the storm, the ‘a’ of the atheist drops!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.
Arzum Uzun
If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are people who are trying to make the world darker and there are people who are trying to make the world brighter! And how can you know who is who? Very simple: Those who let you express your ideas freely, those who let you to be different than others and those who give you every freedom to criticize anything are the ones who are trying to make the world brighter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A ship with a hole underneath is doomed to sink! And ignorance is also a hole in the brain, a big hole!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And then you leave the memories behind.When you look at the pictures It seems like it was always fun. But you know thatin that photos everyone was actually broken deep down inside. Wounded. Bleeding. Crying and yelling at the same time.They were some kinda wounded birds... Eagles, wrens... When you remind that, you became some kinda phoenix. And life goes on like this.like an uncomplete poem.
Arzum Uzun
Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For God’s sake, take the religion out of your life or all kind of absurdities will take the reason out of your life! Keep God, get rid of religion! God, Love and Science; the Magnificent Trinity! All you need is these three things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?
Orhan Pamuk
You can give up your present dream provided that you have created a new dream and especially a better one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who believes in the fate accepts the collar in his neck!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no country on earth which does need no revolution!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Without knowing every single detail in a man’s life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.
Orhan Pamuk
We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
Mehmet Murat ildan