THE MMI QUOTATIONS
THE COLLECTİON OF MEHMET MURAT ILDAN QUOTES
SOME OF MY SELECTED QUOTES -QUOTATIONS - MAXIMS - SAGACIOUS SAYINGS - WISE WORDS - APHORISMS - APOTHEGMS IN ENGLISH
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* We are in the 21st century; what are the kings or the queens doing in this century? They must remain in the past! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* On twitter, you may have a zero follower; but in real life, this is not possible because everyone has a shadow! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cocroach! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Hell means torture; torture means badness. Goodness cannot create or produce badness. Hell does not belong to God; it has been invented by the horrific and sick minded people. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Every sunny morning is a great fountain; we quaff 'sweet hope' from it. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Idiots always keep burying the truths not knowing that even the stomachs of the graves cannot digest the truths and throw up! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A Turkish proverb says the one who speaks truth would be expelled from nine villages. This is true; but there always exist the tenth which embraces the truth! The tenth is the answer of the highness to the lowness! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Darkness is stronger than light; because light must struggle to exist; but darkness exists even it does nothing! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Light has a battery life; darkness has none! Light is finite; darkness is infinite! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A country either elevates the ignorant to the level of the learned or it itself sinks down to the level of the ignorant. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A fence can protect you from cows but not from tanks! In life, there is no complete shield. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All my possesions for a moment of time! This was Queen Elizabeth I's last words. Rest assured that he who has the longest time is the richest of this universe! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Universe is a friend, it creates us; universe is an enemy, it kills us! It is neither a complete-friend, nor a complete enemy. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In defeat, look at the stars; in victory, look at the ground! From the stars, you get hope; from the ground, you get caution. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A day without laugh is a day without life. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In the New Year, may not all your dreams come true, but may only all your good and right dreams come true, because men have evil dreams as well! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* It is an incurable act of desperation that men seek for certainty! It is like seeking for an unshakable place inside a shaking ship! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A good quotation must be provocative; as provocative as to demolish an old wrong castle in the mind with a single strike! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Existence is more important than happiness; we can't live without existence, but we can live with unhappiness! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The biggest challenge for a man is to attain the wisdom of 80 years of age in youth! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No racist is domestic; they belong to the wildlife areas! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* There are many paths to victory; choose the shortest one! There are many paths to defeat; choose the longest one! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* You can buy wisdom from nowhere; but for the foolishness, you don't have to buy it; it is free and it is everywhere! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Today, I have seen a lonely giraffe attacked and eaten by ten lions. This cannot be God's Order; this is obviously Devil's Order! God is not here, even though the fools claim the opposite! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If God is always on the side of the big battalions as Voltaire says, then, let us not waste our time with little detachments! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In the future, all religions will sink, only God will remain stand still! The untruth can survive only for a while and then it sinks! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* May God protect us from all the religions! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If everything is going very well in your life, don't change any parameters; don't even think about it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary. Rather than being common, be extraordinary! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers in his hands! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The key to success is not to seek for a particular key to success! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When you see the flower of happiness on your way, don't take it immediately; sit and watch it and realise how rare it is! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When you make something fetish, ashes and dusts will laught at you, because they know even the most valuable fetishes will turn into dusts and ashes! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner? (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A night without stars is a night wasted. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Moments fly, memories remain; and then memories fly, only memoirs remain and finally memoirs disappear, nothing remains! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In literature, you either create a classical or create a foam! There is no in between! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Human mind can grasp everything in the universe, but it cannot change everything! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Inside a crowd, you have no right to complain about the crowdedness, because you are already a part of it! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* When the inspiration comes, let everything else go! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We were once fish! We spent millions of years under the water in silence. That's why now we love talking continuously! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* As long as death exists, man will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Man is not a ship in harbour; Earth is not a ship in harbour; even Universe is not a ship in harbour! No safe harbour for anything exists! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Storms are not afraid of you; all you must do is not to afraid of the storms too! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* If you are happy, don't analyse your happiness, don't ask questions and don't even think about it; just live it to the fullest! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In all countries, most of the time, offical spokesman and official liar are the same thing! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Man is never out of range of surprises! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing? Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
* Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
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