Quotes About Istanbul In Turkish

#1. My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.

Warwick Davis

#2. I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

Lena Dunham

#3. If you as a pastor don't have a passion for evangelism then don't be surprised if your people done either.

Aubrey Malphurs

#4. It's better to not think about the night and how badly I want her, so I let it sort of stew there in my mind instead. And when I get her all to myself again, I'll be grateful just to see her smile, just to have her with me.
Even if it's only for one more night.

Amanda Lance

#5. She honestly could not tell if she loved London or loathed it. For she could not decide for herself what London was at all.

Miranda Emmerson

#6. Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs!

Anthony Marais

#7. I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

Michael Bloomberg

#8. Writers like Pierre Loti, by contrast, make no secret of loving Istanbul and the Turkish people for the opposite reason: for the preservation of their eastern particularity and their resistance to becoming western.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.

Elif Shafak

#10. National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

Orhan Pamuk

#11. Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon