Kemal Tahir quote: "Görüşmeye gittikleri günlerden birinde İhsan, cezaevleri için, "Burası çıplak adamlar ülkesi." demişti. "Buradaki çıplaklık, üst başla ilgili değil, insanların içyüzleriyle ilgili... Dışarıda insanı insandan saklayan çeşitli perdeler, peçeler, maskeler, burada birkaç güne varmadan sıyrılıp düşüyor."

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten
KEMAL ATATURK

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
KEMAL ATATURK

Bu umut olmasa o üzüm sepetinin başında bir dakika bile bekleyemem.
KEMAL DEMIREL

Feriha, o üzüm sepetinin başında beklemenin yaşatan bir anlamı olması gerekir.
KEMAL DEMIREL

Peace at home, peace in the world
KEMAL ATATURK

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.
KEMAL ATATURK

They don't let us inside... they don't give us a chance to put our case. They forget those of the Tu...
KEMAL ATATURK

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
KEMAL ATATURK

We will file a legal complaint against all of those people behind this conference,
KEMAL ATATURK

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
KEMAL ATATURK

I am not ordering you to attack; I am ordering you to die.
KEMAL ATATURK

Bu dağlarda bin kere ölmeden, bir kere dirilemezsin.
YAşAR KEMAL

Kuşlar da gitti," dedi Mahmut.
Sonra hiç konuşmadık. Kuşlar da gitti, kuşlarla birlikte d...
YAşAR KEMAL

After verification, we found the reports concerning Ugandan incursions (into Congo) to be credible.
KEMAL SAIKI

The economic devastation that comes with the physical devastation should not be underestimated,
KEMAL DERVIS

...Doğu ve Batı'yı çayla olan münasebetlerinden de okuyabilirsiniz.Poşet çay Batı'nın birey...
KEMAL SAYAR

Şu Taksim alanında biribirlerini ezenler, o kadar insanın içinde hak tu, diye ortalığa tükür...
YAşAR KEMAL

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identi...
FARAN TAHIR

The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray differen...
FARAN TAHIR

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
FARAN TAHIR

When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I ...
FARAN TAHIR

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
FARAN TAHIR

When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional...
FARAN TAHIR

We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as huma...
FARAN TAHIR

Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don...
FARAN TAHIR

During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishi...
TAHIR SHAH

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader...
SABAA TAHIR

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to defi...
SABAA TAHIR

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll...
SABAA TAHIR

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
TAHIR SHAH

There are two ways to find a lost city. The first is to rely on luck alone, the second is to control...
TAHIR SHAH

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
TAHIR SHAH

The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that...
TAHIR SHAH

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are...
TAHIR SHAH

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
TAHIR SHAH

With an enthusiastic team you can achieve almost anything.
TAHIR SHAH

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the bree...
TAHIR SHAH

It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks t...
TAHIR SHAH

Family is worth dying for, killing for. Fighting for them is all that keeps us going when everything...
SABAA TAHIR

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.
SABAA TAHIR

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of I...
TAHIR SHAH

So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do someth...
SABAA TAHIR

You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cann...
SABAA TAHIR

You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will b...
SABAA TAHIR

The field of battle is my temple. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The ...
SABAA TAHIR

All the beauty of the stars means nothing when life here on earth is so ugly.
SABAA TAHIR

Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned...
TAHIR SHAH

I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.
TAHIR SHAH

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fir...
SABAA TAHIR

You've had my heart since day one, after all you gave it to me. I love you mom.
TAHIR SUBASIC

" there comes a time in life when you start to seperate yourself from other people, because you thin...
OMAR TAHIR

Fools pay attention to words in a fight. Warriors take advantage of them.
SABAA TAHIR

Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ...
SABAA TAHIR

But you, Helene Aquilla, are no swift-burning spark. You are a torch against the night - if you dare...
SABAA TAHIR

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her ...
SABAA TAHIR

The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition....
TAHIR SHAH

Fight back, Laia. For Darin. For Izzi. For every Scholar this beast has abused. Fight. A scream burs...
SABAA TAHIR

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.
TAHIR SHAH

In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, t...
TAHIR SHAH

As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show ...
TAHIR SHAH

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror o...
TAHIR SHAH

In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
TAHIR SHAH

The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped...
TAHIR SHAH

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.
SABAA TAHIR

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.
SABAA TAHIR

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get...
TAHIR SHAH

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, ...
TAHIR SHAH

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Ca...
TAHIR SHAH

Most people...are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time. But you...are no swift-burning...
SABAA TAHIR

When did you star here?” I ask her.

“Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrin...
SABAA TAHIR

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, ...
TAHIR SHAH

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving th...
TAHIR SHAH

Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a littl...
TAHIR SHAH

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a ...
TAHIR SHAH

But in Africa bureaucrats are usually too proud to accept a bribe, something I admire when I'm not t...
TAHIR SHAH

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is th...
TAHIR SHAH

Just because he's a good leader doesn't mean he's a good person.
SABAA TAHIR

Fear can be good, Laia. It can keep you alive. But don't let it control you. Don't let it sow doubts...
SABAA TAHIR

I'd rather die than live with no mercy, no honor, no soul.
SABAA TAHIR

Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.
SABAA TAHIR

In the night, your loneliness crushes you, as if the sky itself has swooped down to smother you in i...
SABAA TAHIR

As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.
TAHIR SHAH

Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple...
SABAA TAHIR

Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic....
TAHIR SHAH

You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”

SABAA TAHIR

I’d say it’s impossible, but the Commandant trained the word out of me.
SABAA TAHIR

Perhaps I have become so accustomed to the burden of secrets that I do not notice their weight until...
SABAA TAHIR

[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard...
TAHIR SHAH

I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. Th...
TAHIR SHAH

Venture to a remote corner of a faraway land and, from the moment you get there, every person and ev...
TAHIR SHAH

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with d...
TAHIR SHAH

Perhaps grief is like battle: After experiencing enough of it, your body’s instincts take over. Wh...
SABAA TAHIR

I thought you told me you loved stories Have you ever heard a story of an adventurer with a sane pla...
SABAA TAHIR

Children are born to break their mothers’ hearts, my boy.
SABAA TAHIR

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from ...
TAHIR SHAH

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to e...
TAHIR SHAH

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.
TAHIR SHAH

Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notio...
TAHIR SHAH

The best lies come from the truth.
SABAA TAHIR

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must li...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister,...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

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

Greatness consists in deciding only what is necessary for the welfare of the country and making stra...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of de...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Freedom and independence form my character.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Science is the only true guide in life.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Turkey's true master is the peasant.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly countr...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

I always give much attention to military character and to psychological and morale conditions.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

I have a reputation for drinking a lot. Indeed, I drink quite much. However, I give it up when I wis...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

I am mortal. I want the nation to get used to freedom before I die.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Ey tâlih! Ölümden de beterdir bu karanlık;
Ey aşk! O gönüller sana mâl oldular artık;<...
YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLı

Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and wil...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of ...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the imp...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATüRK

I am pleased, with a feeling of good fortune, to be from Selanik. If you want to know the truth bett...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning ...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler w...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the ar...
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

Those who learn to walk with weight,They always walk straight
ARSLAN TAHIR QURESHI

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
MIRZA TAHIR AHMAD

No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of...
MIRZA TAHIR AHMAD

A fundamental aim of Mawlid al-Nabi a is to attain love and proximity of the Prophet and to revive t...
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI

In a nation where the disbelievers sought Heaven from the idols, the Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muh...
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which i...
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI

If knowledge is not put into practice, it does not benefit one.
MUHAMMAD TAHIR-UL-QADRI

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