Top 100 Quotes About Turkish
#1. You can give your message to anybody, to everybody, from anywhere, from everywhere, in every way possible. The only thing you have to consider is this: Let your message be simple and understandable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. As Turkish entrepreneurs perform well in Iraq, the Iraqis will have more confidence in Turkish contractors than in some European company they do not know.
Husnu Ozyegin
#3. If your mind is loaded with many burdens, you will not feel yourself empty even in an empty place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.
Orhan Pamuk
#5. One could reasonably argue that the Turkish pogrom against the Armenians during World War I qualifies as a crime against humanity, as does the United States' ethnic cleansing of Native Americans.
Sebastian Junger
#6. Gerdanlouk, he thinks. An evocative Turkish word, with Arabic roots. It means jewelry, but only jewelry adorning a woman between her lower neck and the top of her breasts. Gerdanlouk. He looks away.
Jenny White
#7. Through helping one another, you can often eliminate the prefix 'im' from the word impossible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#10. The Turkish quarter oozed, impregnated with malicious mockery, a viral scorn.
Joseph D. Stec
#11. Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. His skin's so tanned he could be Turkish or something
David Mitchell
#14. Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.
Thomas De Quincey
#15. Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as if it was your father's house ... Believe in seeds, earth, and the sea, but people above all. Love clouds, machines, and books, but people above all. Nazim Hikmet, 20th century Turkish poet
Nahid Rachlin
#18. Turkish." Vocabulary was deleted, new words added. Place-names all over the country were Turkified (for example, "Smyrna" became "Izmir"), which only added confusion and another obfuscating layer to the buildup of historical sediment.
Eric Bogosian
#19. Do the difficult thing; you can then have something that you can be truly proud of!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. When a powerful storm collides with a much more powerful storm, it will understand that his power was just a dust before the wind! You can be a giant only until a bigger giant comes and erases your existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas
#26. 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
#27. At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
Stephen King
#28. There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#29. It'd be great to be in a position where you can make choices regardless of money. My tastes are always gonna lead me to go for the amazing project where I'm being paid in Turkish cantaloupes.
Will Ferrell
#32. Wherever wind visits, there it freshens the air; wherever wisdom visits, there it freshens the mind!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. My fear, which I shared with everyone in the Turkish secular bourgeoisie, was not of God but of the fury of those who believed in Her too much.
Orhan Pamuk
#34. If you are earning your money through violence, all this money is unethical, because violence and ethics cannot be together!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#38. You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. It's enough, therefore, to glance in the dictionary and find that katorga (forced labor) is a Turkish word, too. And it's enough to discover on a Turkish map, somewhere in Anatolia, or Ionia, a town called Nigde (russian for nowhere).
Joseph Brodsky
#40. Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. I am proud to be a Turk, and to write in Turkish about Turkey - and to have been translated into about 40 languages. But I don't want to politicize things by dramatizing them.
Orhan Pamuk
#43. An idea can be greater than the Sun, because with an intelligent idea, man can discover the way to create another sun! Idea is the greatest power in this universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Like many visitors, they had been unnerved by the inimitable creepiness of the Holy Sepulchre, a grimly gaudy, theopathical Turkish bathhouse where their childhood saints glared like demented spooks from every moldering wall.
Robert Stone
#46. The West-march of the Walmart Held all the food in the world, Bottled beer by the boatload, Frost-kept food, milk and meat. Setting up for a siege behind barricades The Norsemen fetched food, collected clothing, Turkish trousers with flies in the front Kept closed with clever contraptions, Tiny
Neal Stephenson
#47. Always seek for balance in your life: If you stayed long in the darkness, walk long in the light; if you talked too much, stay silent for a good while; if you climbed the high mountains, hike long on the plains! Balance everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. 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
#51. You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#52. If you love the life very much, you will see that everything will be shining, everything will be sparkling!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped by an imperial Ottoman past overlaid onto a republican state framework, but divorced from the Kemalist state project.
Jenny White
#56. If people don't feel any emptiness when you leave a place, then it means you were an emptiness for them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Pushkin wrote Turkish poems and he was never in Turkey.
Ilya Ilf
#58. When the silence bores you, let the music play; when the music bores you, let the silence play!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#62. In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor.
Orhan Pamuk
#63. Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
Adam Schiff
#65. Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.
Bulent Ecevit
#66. When the time came to move forward, don't even think about to look at back for even a second!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#67. Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#69. Either our history shall with full mouth
Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.
William Shakespeare
#70. Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
Adam Schiff
#73. Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love
Rumi
#74. A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.
Noam Chomsky
#77. For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.
Abdullah Ocalan
#78. A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
Orhan Pamuk
#82. I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
Orhan Pamuk
#83. The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called 'You and I' planet!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Muhammad Iffat has an inflexible, Turkish mentality but a heart of gold.
Naguib Mahfouz
#89. Turkey will not let Turkish territory or airspace be used in any activity that could harm the security or safety of Syria.
Ali Babacan
#90. Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.
Peter Lerangis
#91. I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that's also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn't go somewhere: My grandfather's house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.
Hannah Simone
#92. You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and if you try and replace that with thinking they die. You can read and think as much as you want before and after, but in the moment, man, you have to, like, let go.
Blue GhostGhost
#93. Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." Thomas Paine
George Washington
#95. Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.
Philip Kerr
#96. Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#97. The Turks who live here in Germany don't get their information from German media. They read Turkish newspapers and watch Turkish television. A sort of parallel media world has developed in Germany, especially as a result of technological advances like satellite TV and the internet.
Fatih Akin
#98. When Erdogan assumed control, he gave power to a wave of Islamism, strengthened by Ozal, that had been creeping back into Turkish life under the radar screen of official Kemalism.
Robert D. Kaplan
#99. He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule.
Naguib Mahfouz
#100. Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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