Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 14

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes when you lose your way in the fog, you end up in a beautiful place! Don’t be afraid of getting lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do the things you want to do; if you don’t, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sun sets, life gets darker in the country; when a bad leader sinks, life gets brighter in the country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t ever be a stupid shadow who follows perfectly his leader no matter what foolishness his leader does!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A calm night is open to all the truths.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A night without stars is a night wasted.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Night is the fatherland of the great inspirations.
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a beautiful night, under the stars, man always feels himself above the sky, beside the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
the train plunges on through the pitch-black nightI never knew I liked the night pitch-blacksparks fly from the engineI didn't know I loved sparksI didn't know I loved so many things and I had to wait until sixty to find it out sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return
Nâzım Hikmet
Magic of the nights is always much impressive than the magic of the days! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you always read the same old ideas, what progress can you make in the name of discovering new paths?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration. It is a social discipline, and society has other means of cost accounting besides market prices.
Dani Rodrik
Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
Orhan Pamuk
The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you kill someone, something from that person passes to you - a sigh, a smell or a gesture. I call it "the curse of the victim." It clings to your body and seeps into your skin, going all the way into your heart, and thus continues to live within you. I carry with me the traces of all the men I have killed. I wear them around my neck like invisible necklaces, feeling their presence against my flesh, tight and heavy. In every murderer breathes the man he murdered.
Elif Shafak
Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.
Orhan Pamuk
There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When everything seems too far away from you, don’t despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
Elif Shafak
What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a house has no garden, the whole earth becomes its garden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Remember that animals are born to live their own lives, not to serve you! Do not use them; do not exploit them. Let them live their own lives.
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals
Akif Pirinçci
Humans which imprison the animals can never be called as humans!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every road will take you somewhere! But the question is: To where? To a sunny place or to a place full with shadows? Those who are very sure of their paths often end up in the second place! Don’t be so sure with your path, question it ten times, question it hundred times!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are walking on the wrong path not knowingly, that is bad for you; if walking knowingly, that is stupid for you and if you lead others on the wrong path deliberately that is a shame for you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you find your way and sometimes way finds you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you know the right path, never keep it to only yourself! If you know the wrong path, never keep it to only yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One can easily forget his destination when walking in a marvellous path towards his destination! The attraction of the path can be much stronger than the attraction of the target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The longest path is always the one you walk with fear!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch the fools! Watch them carefully! Learn their paths so that you can learn how to avoid them!
Mehmet Murat ildan