Modern Turkish Writers Quotes

Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever their ideas or ideologies or religions are, always get along well with people! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Dear pious fellow! Our greatest hope for you is that one day you will understand that you have no enemy other than death, no port other than existence, no protector other than your own mind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Autumn leaf waits for autumn wind to reach the unreachable places; wise mind waits for silence for the same reason! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A society which devastates its homelands' nature no more has the right to live in that territories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life! ~ 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

Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't pull people into your own storm! Let them stay safe outside your storm! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let fascism find not even a single passage to power or else that poisonous snake will infiltrate into the every vital corner of the country and kill the future of the nation! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas! ~ 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

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life! ~ 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

Yes, human salvation will come through science, but only through the nature-respecting science! ~ 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

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring! ~ 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

For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you fail, let the world knows the reasons of your failure; if you win, let the world knows the secrets of your victory! This is a great way to be useful for others! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain! ~ 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

The Turkish infantry were as fine as they had ever been, and their field artillery was presentable. But they had none of the modern weapons which from May, 1940, were proved to be decisive. Aviation was lamentably weak and primitive. They had no tanks or armoured cars, and neither the workshops to make and maintain them nor the trained men and staffs to handle them. They had hardly any anti-aircraft or anti-tank artillery. Their signal service was rudimentary. Radar was unknown to them. Nor did their warlike qualities include any aptitude for all these modern developments. ~ Winston S. Churchill