Popular Turkish Sayings

#1. If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar-playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

Bill Bryson

#2. We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth ... Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.

Brigham Young

#3. I can be a subversive element.

Ulrike Meinhof

#4. There will be good moments, and there will be less good moments.

Donald Rumsfeld

#5. Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]

Siri Hustvedt

#6. You! she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

Kim Harrison

#7. At that moment, I was sure ... he would cry. It seems that Sakura-chan is the most important person in the world to Syaoran-kun. So when she said, "who are you?" I felt certain he would cry. I wonder if he's crying now.

CLAMP

#8. The road I have travelled feels right to have found my home in you.

Joe

#9. Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed

Michael Harner

#10. Faith then they vowed
Fast, unyielding,
There each to each
In oaths binding.
Bliss there was born
When Brynhild woke;
Yet fate is strong
To find its end.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. No one should be appointed to political office if he is a seeker after it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#12. Weapons science was always kept very close to the government's chest, receiving the most funds and the least publicity.

Peter F. Hamilton