Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 29

All social interactions require some loss of freedom.
Erol Ozan
A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And ‘to be remembered, to be respected’ is a good sunshine; ‘safety in the mine’ is a good sunshine!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?
Mehmet Murat ildan
An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always possible that society you live in might go backwards, towards the land of ignorance and darkness! While this tragedy and stupidity happening, you must move forward! You must walk forward, towards the light and wisdom, to the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.
Elif Shafak
Ironically, [living in] communities of the like - minded is one of the greatest dangers of today ́s globalized world. And it ́s happening everywhere, among liberals and conservatives, agnostics and believers, the rich and the poor, East and West alike. We tend to form clusters based on similarity, and then we produce stereotypes about other clusters of people. In my opinion, one way of transcending these cultural ghettos is through the art of storytelling
Elif Shafak
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
World is brighter with the happiness of children.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Children and cats are the best machines of fun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Poor or rich, black or white, quiet or naughty, mentally defective or sharp-witted, thin or fat, all children are great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. The water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.
Elif Shafak
In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!
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
Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is not to be at the top of a giant pyramid and hence see everywhere clearly, but wisdom is to be at the top, at the bottom, to be inside the pyramid, it is to be everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
By disappearing in the Land of Nature, you appear in the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Why a wise man is wise? The answer is simple: Because he has left his own shore!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Traveler! If you keep wandering in the path of wisdom you too eventually become a man of wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Rain touching our hand becomes a little bit salty! Man touching wisdom becomes a little bit wiser! More touches take more from the touched!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Follow the river to reach the sea; follow the sea to reach the ocean. And finally follow the ocean to reach the wisdom! As long as you target beyond of the beyond, you will reach the very beyond!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and for his own joy! Man is hypocrite!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a great joy to open a new path; and then, it is a greater joy to see new people on this new path; but the greatest joy is to see the new people opening many more brand new paths via this new path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The things which give joy to you may also give you horror!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sex is a thing, love is everything.
Arzum Uzun
This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn.
Arzum Uzun
Okay," i said. "If i can not find anybody to have sex, i call you."He smiled. "When you'll find out you have not anybody to love, you'll call.
Arzum Uzun
Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses.
Baris Gencel
When, after hours of lovemaking, we quickly dressed and leftthe apartment, I sometimes thought that Füsun was also taking care not to get “carried away” by herfeelings for me. A proper understanding of my story depends, I think, on a full appreciation of thepleasure we took from these sweet shared moments. I am certain that the fire at the heart of my tale is thedesire to relive those moments of love, and my attachment to those pleasures.
Orhan Pamuk
At this stage I can see most of the men are still primitive about sexual perception and conception.
Baris Gencel
Cooking like a Michelin star chef without a recipe requires high intuition but only a little skill, a lot of imagination, and willingness to be curious and innovative.
Baris Gencel
Without feeling so close, so connected, so comfortable to a person for what I have sex.
Baris Gencel
Some people has the ability to see the winter as the spring season! Such positive minds can reach the farthest places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A dreamlike reality always looks like a real dream!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man with a finite life can only dream to have an infinite journey and the good news is that any dream has the potential to turn into a reality
Mehmet Murat ildan
If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The job of reflection is to add a dimension of fable to the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan