Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 8

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain is nature’s art; umbrella is man’s art. When you walk with your umbrella in a rainy day, you walk with a super art which is a combination of two different arts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand” of the market. When the plan was formulated in tons of steel sheet, the sheet was made too heavy. When it was formulated in terms of area of steel sheet, the sheet was made too thin. When the plan for chandeliers was made in tons, they were so heavy, they could hardly hang from ceilings.
Daron Acemoglu
If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A mind is a simulation that simulates itself.
Erol Ozan
People of one idea are the poorest people on earth; people of many ideas, people of many different thoughts are the richest people on earth! Only the rich in ideas, only those who have flexible minds will survive in this ever changing universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a boat to sail, land becomes a choice! If you do not have a boat to sail, land becomes a fate! Create different choices so that you can have different fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To get fruits from the tree branches, shake them with hands; to get fruits from men, shake them with clever ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.
Mehmet Murat ildan
What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ka found it very soothing: for the first time in years, he felt part of a family. In spite of the trials and responsibilities of what was called 'family', he saw now the joys of its unyielding togetherness, and was sorry not to have known more of it in his life.
Orhan Pamuk
He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the Ottoman times, there were itinerant storytellers called "meddah. " They would go to coffee houses, where they would tell a story in front of an audience, often improvising. With each new person in the story, the meddah would change his voice, impersonating that character. Everybody could go and listen, you know ordinary people, even the sultan, Muslims and non-Muslims. Stories cut across all boundaries. Like "The Tales of Nasreddin Hodja," which were very popular throughout the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans and Asia. Today, stories continue to transcend borders
Elif Shafak
He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.
Orhan Pamuk
If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What job a fascinating view does, apart from fascinating you? It does this: It perfectly motivates you to love existence much more than you can love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.
Orhan Pamuk
Trust yourself, trust the road, trust the weather and trust your destination! This quarto-trust can create a miraculously successful journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.
Orhan Pamuk
What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.
Orhan Pamuk
However much you love them, you must let everything and everybody that desperately long for their freedom to be free!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don’t be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!
Mehmet Murat ildan