c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
That Reagan shaped mechanical gadget in the metal box that made you jump like a little sissy boy, Joe, that is the heart and soul of what the flag’n’Jebus crowd is scared of so bad they can’t even think about him existing.” He looked at Joe, waiting for an aha! that didn’t come. “That whole wing of modern conservatism lives for, on, about, with, in, and by the idea that everything is happening via supernatural powers and that the devil is powerful and has to be fought. Modern science totally spoils that because it gives people so much power but not from supernatural sources. No God in the instruments, you know?“So with modern tech we can make Ronald Reagan appear to come back from the grave, but to do it with modern tech leaves no need for spirits or sacred words or miracles or any other flavor of magic. Which only re emphasizes what they’re most afraid of: living in a world where nobody paints the sky blue every morning, or leaves quarters for teeth, or made platypi as a joke, or decided to sculpt the Grand Canyon, or took granny to heaven to make chocolate chip cookies for the angels. Nobody, nobody, nobody. So since their theology won’t let me bring in a Robo Jesus to call forth Robo Reagan, like sort of a Robo Lazarus, and they really want this, like so many people do…well, it can’t come from nobody, it has to come from somebody, and the somebody can’t be God.“Well, if the devil is anything, he’s somebody.”Joe was still sputtering. “But it…I mean, they’re going to think it’s coming out of Hell! Literal capital H real place Hell!”“Well, exactly. Think about how much that proves. If there’s a Hell and a Devil, there’s also a Heaven and a God. Once they have their Reagan back all they have to do is pray over him a little, drive the devil out, accept the blessing of a restored Reagan on behalf of God, and they’re good to go. God forgives crazier shit than that all the time.
— John Barnes, Raise the Gipper!
Of course you would, Mitt," Reagan said. "Well, I’m glad we understand each other, and I think your father would be proud of you being in his old spot, and I want you to know that when I’m choosing my Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, your resumé will be on the very top of the pile. It’s been great chatting with you but you know, I have to find a vice presidential candidate, and soon.”“Ha, ha, ha, ah it’s been great chatting with you, too, Mr. President, and—”Reagan cocked his head slightly, smiled, and caught the eye of a minion; a moment later Romney had been deposited outside the door like a discarded room service tray, having barely had time to shift from ha, ha, ha back to ah…ah…
— John Barnes, Raise the Gipper!
Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean?” Aura asked.“On construction sites. Is that coffee ready?
— John Barnes, Raise the Gipper!
A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.
— Tom Morrison
Mitt Romney's first interview with Zombie Reagan:  Mitt Romney came in with cheerful assurance, because he wasn’t capable of anything else. “Let me first welcome you back to this side of the veil, Mr. President.”“Yeah, Mitt, it’s good to see you looking so well. Your father says hello, and he wanted me to add specially that whatever unfortunate negative things you might remember him saying to you when you were a kid, he always tried to tell you the truth and he hopes you’ve used it to improve, and he understands that even with the help of those comments, it might just not have been in you to improve. He wants you to remember he still loves you no matter what you’ve become, or even if you haven’t chosen to become any one thing in particular.”“That’s very kind. I miss my dad even now.”“Oh, so do I. I remember George as always that kind of guy, he had your back, whenever you’d think to watch your back, you’d find him somewhere around there, ready for action with that knife already drawn.
— John Barnes, Raise the Gipper!
It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.
— Tom Morrison
The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.
— Tom Morrison
Marriage is the legal method devised to end love without pain.
— Tom Morrison
Charm is an elusive quality. Some have it; no teacher can afford to be without it. Teachers who lack charm must resort to violence.”“How much more dignified to retire from the world rather than wait for the world to tire of you.”“Reform, like gender, is a concept in constant need of reinvention.
— Hugh Mahoney, Virgins & Martyrs
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.
— Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
What is the secret of life?’ I asked.‘I forget,’ said Sandra.‘Protein,’ the bartender declared. ‘They found something out about protein.‘‘Yeah,’ said Sandra, ‘that’s it.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.
— John Fante
Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unalterable Love, in which we were secure from being interrupted, by intruding and disagreeable Visistors, as Augustus and Sophia had on their first Entrance in the Neighbourhood, taken due care to inform the surrounding Families, that as their happiness centered wholly in themselves, they wished for no other society.
— Jane Austen, Love and Friendship
The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.
— Michelle Templet
They who suspect a Mephistophiles, or sneering, satirical devil, under all, have not learned the secret of true humor, which sympathizes with gods themselves, in view of their grotesque, half-finished creatures.
— Henry David Thoreau, Collected Essays and Poems
Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.
— Michelle Templet
Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.
— Michelle Templet
Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!
— Michelle Templet
When you follow your joy, the true essence of your life unfolds.
— Milan Ljubincic
Will without Power is incomplete and power without will is dangerous when will and will power both are present, implementation is easy!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Acceleration can never happen if the baggage of the past in pulling you from behind!
— Harrish Sairaman
A friend gives me an abusive word and a stranger does the same!!!! Huge difference, coz what matters is WHO said IT!!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
You need not sit on the mountains to meditate, you can do it while having a cup of tea. If you are only focusing on tea and enjoying, you are in a state of bliss!
— Harrish Sairaman
Behind everything that we do, there is always a Purpose. We are just not conscious to most of them.
— Harrish Sairaman
Influencing is just not about listening and speaking, it’s the game of interpretation.
— Harrish Sairaman
What cannot be done today, will not be done tomorrow. We will find bigger excuses!
— Harrish Sairaman
Let me lay bare my soulto show you’re not alonein this naked rawness- Vulnerable
— Abby Rosmarin, No One Reads Poetry: A Collection of Poems
The purpose of a purpose is to fulfill a purpose
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
If someone deprives you of your history deprives you of your future
— Thabiso Monkoe, The Azanian
up upIf someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future
— Thabiso Monkoe
Never reveal what is real
— Talking Daily
Gracie's father was an engineer, her mother an accountant. I couldn't picture either one of them yelling or throwing things or having affairs. I could see my dad doing stuff like that. Trish sure did. But Dad carried a war in his skull, and Trish was a drunk. Gracie's parents didn't have anything like that to deal with, but their daughter was falling apart on the bathroom floor.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Forgiveness has very little do with the person. It's for your own healing.
— Premchand Shetty
time the time for the times you
— Bello Salihu
Life is not something that can be taught, it's something that can only be experienced
— Nacer Eddine Boukacem
Life is the music of your soul
—  all you need to do is to listen hard
Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.
— Rob Liano
Some people come some people go..That's the way it should be..Welcome people come, farewell people go..Because it's a life.
— Sally Chandra
Failure starts a future success, if you become better.
— Troy Clark
When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
— Carla H. Krueger
Amazing grace, amazing life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A woman's life is the sum of her choices.
— Dahmenah
And a weak person will find it easier to take what someone else has earned rather than risk working hard and achieving something on his own.
— Judy Duarte, Mulberry Park
The feeling of deep gratitude is the basis for a balanced life.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Life needs a room so hermetically sealed to breathe life
— Munia Khan
Dream all you can, live all you say, work all you must.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.
— Judy Duarte, Mulberry Park
Cherish every second you have. Hold the ones you love close to you. Sing, even when you don’t know the words to the song. Smile when the sun shines on your face. Dance in the rain.
— Kormal Kant
A double-minded person is unstable in all his doing
— Michael Ikechukwu john
Life is not always what you think it should be. Sometimes life turns out different.
— Donnajo Calhoun
No one can play your role better than you.
— Sagar Ugale
It’s funny how we think life works a certain way because of TV and movies. Most people don’t really think about how scripts are edited and how people get to practice their lines and rehearse. If one doesn’t get it right they get to redo the scene until they do. In real life what’s missing or not working only comes up when we’re going along full blast. We end up being the editors of our lives only while we’re running in real time.
— Mark Kendrick, Desert Sons
Life and Death is all about Swansong
— Michael Ikechukwu john
Not only try but try your best!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
An excellent photograph is the one which has excellently captured an excellent moment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t behave in accordance with the conditions
—  make the conditions behave in accordance with yourself!
Sadness in autumn is an autumn within autumn!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Walking in a beautiful narrow street is an excellent way of discovering life with the feeling of security!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling becomes an excellent teacher if the traveller becomes an excellent student!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Travelling is the best way to introduce ourselves to the universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You will desperately realise the necessity of casting anchor to somewhere or being chained to someone or something when you are drifting in the emptiness of life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When we look at the old photographs, we always ask three main questions: Are they alive? If they are, where are they? And finally, what is their life story? Photography is an art of creating many questions in the mind of the viewer!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The emerald life of shepherds always reminds us the romantic and humble life we have lost due to living in the cities!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Careful minds build durable buildings
—  careless minds build rotten buildings!
Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Resurrection, rebirth, reincarnation, resprout, revive! All these words can be summarised only in one word: Vacation!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot forever escape from the storm
—  you must learn to stand up to it!
Winning a game is good
—  but winning a game together with winning your rival’s heart too is brilliant and this is a real winning!
Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Simple is pretty because it is plain
—  simple is effective because it gives an understandable clear message
Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain
—  anything usual makes you sleep!
The hardest roads are often empty
—  the darkest paths are mostly silent
Wear red and just be silent, don’t even whisper by yourself; you will see that you will be heard easily because red always speaks on behalf of you! By wearing red, you give your tongue and voice to red colour!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain control over their fates unchecked! Provoke the lonely to participate the crowds and provoke the crowds to visit the loneliness! Be a provocateur! Provoke people to cross the bridges so that they can see the other side!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You cannot forever hide your true face in the shade
—  it will eventually be caught by the light!
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe
—  but the good guys have two enemies: The universe and the bad guys!
By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Spring is not a season
—  it is a mysterious illusionist who sets off fireworks in the depths of our soul!
The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
While you are walking in a street, if you are not thinking about that street, we cannot say that you are walking in that street because you are always in the place where your mind is! Wherever you are, you can be in that place only by being at the present moment!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
As long as we are stronger than our troubles, we will always see them left behind us!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You must never travel on the road of hopelessness because that road is deprived of any kind of light!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are lucky when we are helped while we lose our balance
—  but we are certainly much luckier when we are helped only by ourselves while we lose our balance because the less external-help we get the more inner-strength we gain!
The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One-man regimes belong to old eras
—  they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!
There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To see the hidden, you hide yourself too!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He who helps you in your worst moment well deserves to be your best hero!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you need a helping hand, look inside you before anywhere else!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Double face in a person is no problem as long as both faces are more or less the same!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn’t need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A hungry cat does no favour to a trapped bird!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The joy of life is being able to do the things we wish to do!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Our photographs are our best proof to others that we lived the things we lived in the past!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A new world order can only be created if we establish an order where the powerful wolf cannot eat the weak lamb!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have the ability to see the things behind the scenes, then you have the greatest talent one can ever have because there is almost always something else behind the things!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Moments fly and if you don’t fly with the moments, you remain on the ground apart from the moments while the moments are flying!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The miracle of a single tree in the middle of nowhere originates from its own power, its own belief in itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The best friends of the highest mountains are only the clouds and the adventurer mountaineers!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Ants are successful creatures
—  they are successful because they know very well that the mind of the team is superior to the mind of the individual!
Hard roads require will of steel!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of impossibilities! Try to do the things which are beyond your powers; change your frontiers, create new ones! And then attack the new frontiers!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where people are afraid of even their own shadows is surely a country of dictatorship! In such vile countries there are two groups of people: The zombies, the living-dead who serve the dictator and the rest, the clever and honourable people who fight for their freedom!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not only persons lose their way, but nations lose their way as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Environmental pollution is not only humanity’s treason to humanity but also a treason to all other living creatures on earth!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
From the same window, you keep seeing the same view!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Visit your life, because you are spending too much time in others life! Visit yourself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is full of traps: Poisons can be sweet
—  darkness can shine!
Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Mankind has created many religions
—  most of them are long gone now and finally all will long gone! This truth is an irreversible truth!
Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Telling the right thing is not enough
—  it has to be told effectively!
We must thank to the crazy people because by looking at their achievements or the failures, we can decide whether we have to inject some craziness to our own lives or not!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Hard long roads create tough men
—  dangerous hostile paths create powerful people! Great difficulties create giant guys!
If you are well ahead of your own society, your path will seem a wrong path to your own people!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You may not be happy with your life. All you have to do is to refuse to be unhappy! Because the worst thing is to get used to be unhappy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What is really the Mars One project? It is to carry Frank Sinatra to the Mars, it is to carry Hamlet to the Mars, Gandhi to the Mars, Buddha to the Mars. It is a project of carrying our memories, our knowledge, our history, our everything to the Mars! It is not only a project of saving our future but also a project of saving our whole past!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever time is giving us, it will take everything back!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Reaching the top requires taking a good break every time you need it! On the way up, you must never hesitate to stop for a while!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Death must die so that life can be real!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The more a politician stays in the high positions, the dirtier and filthier he becomes! Countries must ensure that no politician stays long in the high offices or else the whole country starts becoming dirty and filthy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Anywhere in the world, if you see a law which is protecting the rapists, you must know that this law has been prepared by the rapists!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who is deprived of criticisms is a miserable and a poor man
—  a man who ignores or refuses or fears criticisms is a foolish man!
The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way
—  this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!
There is a non-technical way to travel in time: Try to create religious generations in your country, then you will certainly travel back in time, into the old eras!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The greatest hero for a country is the person who gave a progressive vision, a peaceful soul, a modern mind and an unshakable belief in science to his nation. And for the Turks, this honorable name is Atatürk, an immortal revolutionist!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The first dance is the worst dance
—  the last dance is the best dance! All the roads of persistent practice lead to the Land of Perfection!
Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you accept anyone to be your boss, no man can be your boss!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Do not try to be attractive
—  just be natural because being natural is already attractive!
When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We are all born in a little port but not all of us sail the vast oceans! Majority remains in the port!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You become rich by helping the poor
—  you become rich also by helping the rich! Helping makes you rich!
Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Enlarge your windows till you will get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A city man taking the picture of a donkey and behaving like he has seen an alien creature must absolutely be photographed as he is certainly more interesting than the donkey itself!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Watch yourself from different angles so that you can understand better who you really are!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Plains watch the mountains and mountains watch the plains. Through looks, everything touches everything, even though they have many kilometers or even light years between them!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A ship on the port always waits for you to sail to the oceans!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
A planet without birds is a planet without angels!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Flexibility is an art of creating way outs within the cul-de-sacs!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every fashion is temporary but the concept of fashion is permanent!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No matter how developed it is, a country which does not protects its own wild life can never be called as a civilized country!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away from your herd to get closer to yourself, to find your true self you have lost in the herd!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The farthest mountain is the one you think you can never reach and it may even be just by the side of you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Injustice and lawlessness is the greatest terror a government can ever enforce on its own people!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Not every lost soul wants to be found, because not every lost is lost, some of them found something or many thing or even everything in their lostness!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the boundlessness be your boundary!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can always challenge a big storm with a little boat and this will only prove how unserious person you are!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Unless you close your door to other ideas, you will never remain idealess!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The holy eye is the one who is able to see the extraordinary beauties of the ordinary days!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For a stairs to be safe, every step on that stairs has to be safe!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a good message from the ocean: You will be an ocean too if you let every river, every rain, every flood and every stream flow to you freely!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For a weak person, every little hill is a giant mountain; for a strong person, every giant mountain is a little hill!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do something, you miss something else! If you don’t want to miss anything, you have to do everything!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Right path will not always look like a right path
—  wrong path will not always look like a wrong path!
Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The best dancer is the one who is not even aware of her dancing!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No man can be immortal by dying! There is only one way to be immortal: Not to die!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Unusual doors often take you to the unusual worlds!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The most beautiful road is the road you think it is the most beautiful road!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes you have to succeed to see that there is nothing awesome in the thing which will be achieved!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
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