Leyla Zana Quotes

#1. If you start doing things because you hate others and want to screw them over, the end result is bad.

Linus Torvalds

#2. Let us refuse to be silent! Speaking freely is a decisive step forward on the road to freedom.

Leyla Zana

#3. A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesn't know.

Georg Simmel

#4. Innovation comes from people who take joy in their work.

W. Edwards Deming

#5. The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass ... Wet grass is slippery.

Greg Maddux

#7. Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

Leyla Zana

#8. Luis Fuentes reminded me that I'm still vulnerable. If I'm emotionally unavailable, then I don't have to worry about ever getting hurt. [ ... ] Nikki Cruz will no longer be vulnerable.

Simone Elkeles

#9. Who said that the thrill of the chase should only be felt by the hunter?

H.A. Kotys

#10. It is not often one chooses a demon over an angel.
So they told me. But this demon was the only one who made me feel safe.

Heather Heffner

#11. I have defended democracy, human rights, and brotherhood between peoples. And I'll keep doing so for as long as I live.

Leyla Zana

#12. The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession.

Thorstein Veblen

#13. Women's fight for equal rights is essentially a humanist and peaceful struggle for true democracy, and a higher form of civilization.

Leyla Zana

#14. When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician.

Debbie Davies

#15. I don't want my daughter to think she has to dress like Beyonce!

Mariella Frostrup

#16. If you're keeping score, win.

Red Auerbach