Tanpinar Quotes

#1. I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

Dan Aykroyd

#2. She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

Melina Marchetta

#3. Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.

Pankaj Mishra

#4. For as Dostoyevsky warned, "No nation on earth, no society with a certain measure of stability, has been developed to order, on the lines of a program imported from abroad.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

#5. Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

Herbert M. Shelton

#7. Not all first loves were forever loves.

Karen Kingsbury

#8. I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Chris Brown

#9. I fear that those who see freedom solely as a political concept will never fully grasp its meaning. The political pursuit of freedom can lead to its eradication on a grand scale - or rather it opens the door to countless curtailments.

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

#10. A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. But this is silly - we could sit here all night contrasting cock-lengths. I say mine is five feet long, you say yours is six, and shoots fire upon command.

Scott Lynch

#12. Because you are alive and reading this
Anything is Possible

Steven Aitchison

#13. As humans we make mistakes, expect life to automatically meet all of our needs, and imagine our environment will stay wonderful without extra effort from us.

Catherine Basten

#14. But, Doctor, I'm not ill. Good God! I've told you everything".
Again his fixed his eyes on mine and stopped me, his voice full of resolve.
"You are ill. It is the fate we all share since the birth of psychoanalysis".

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

#15. There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#16. A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#17. The whole of history since the ascension of Jesus into heaven is concerned with one work only: the building and perfecting of this City of God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. Charm Your Own Cheese,

J.K. Rowling

#19. God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain.

Timothy W. Tron