Top 587 Quotes & Sayings by Turkish Authors - Page 9

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

When a person from a community goes and buys a car, he or she should have the incentive, financial incentive, to buy a more efficient, more environment-friendly car. This shouldn't be only left to the intention of the people. We cannot only rely on the ethics or the moral of the people.

The reason people like the Young Turks is because we say things you're not allowed to say in Washington that are obviously true.

Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?

I look forward to fighting Nancy Pelosi, and I look forward to defeating Nancy Pelosi in getting the Green New Deal passed.

My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.

Savage people realize their aims through fighting, through conflict. Cultivated and intellectual souls believe that they will attain their aims through thought and discussion.

But I am a basketball player going out there to compete, I am going to try to win no matter what. That is just in my blood.

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.

My friends call me a 'pace-setter.' Sometimes I am impatient, I think, but you must be fast and flexible in business because uncertainty is the only certainty in life.

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

I am the son of a mine worker.

Disapproving and boycotting is the Quranic thing to do, whereas violence and threats are not.

I do practice what I preach when it comes to nutrition.

Fossil fuel subsidies are a hand brake as we drive along the road to a sustainable energy future.

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother's, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.

I'm not a criminal or a radical. I'm not 'dangerous.' I'm a human being with opinions and beliefs that I have a right to express.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

The most important problem that Turkey has is education.

If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

Our team security said, even if you go to a supermarket, have someone with you. So everywhere I go - grocery shopping, practice, go to games, go to plays - I always have someone with me because you never know, a lone wolf, one of the crazy Erdogan supporters will do something.

I was always kind of a loudmouth to the point where I annoyed my teachers and friends.

I was in Madrid as a young girl and a teenager. I'll never forget when I went to the Prado Museum for the first time and saw the paintings of Goya. They had such a big impact on me.

I've been to playoffs before. That should be everybody's goal is the playoffs.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

We are mortals, we will die one day.

I have always tried to be a humble servant of God and a humble member of humanity.

I don't have time for regrets. I go forward; I'm a doer, and I always have projects and dreams.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

There is no Kurdish problem.

I tell foreign companies that come here... 'Don't see Turkey as a country of 770,000 sq km and $800bn gross domestic product. This country has the potential to do so much business in the surrounding countries.'

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life's work.

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

Greece is not an easy country to do business in.

I have a prominent platform and I want to use it to promote respect for human rights, democracy, and personal freedom. For me, this is bigger than basketball.

Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me. Books saved me. So, I do believe through stories we can learn to change, we can learn to empathize and be more connected with the universe and with humanity.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.

The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

It is possible that people who share core values will make choices along the same lines.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

We invite our friends who hold high positions in the legislative branch of government and state institutions to master the skills of administration, so they could, when the time comes, reform the Turkish state and make it more fruitful at all its levels in the name of Islam.

I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism.

Erdogan thinks if he gets rid of me, he thinks ending me will end the movement. He couldn't be more wrong.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

I get up at the same time every morning.

It was just a normal family. We were playing basketball, we were playing soccer. It was home-cooked meals, just peaceful and happy times.

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

It is unfair to ask Turkey to make a unilateral concession to take goods from Cyprus within the customs union when the E.U. is not open to northern Cyprus.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.