Istanbul Quotes - Page 2

• I know what kind of man it takes to get involved with something as barbarous as human trafficking.” “I get it, Swopes. He’s not the kind of man you take home to meet your stepmom.” I rethought that. “Wait a minute. Maybe my stepmom would like to meet him. Do you think he ships to Istanbul?

  Darynda Jones

  Home, Men, Thinking

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.262, St. Martin's Press

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• We had no desire to live in Istanbul, nor in Paris or New York. Let them have their discos and dollars, their skycrapers and supersonics transports. Let them have their radios and their color TV, hey, we have ours, don't we? But we have something they don't have. Heart. We have heart. Look, look how the light of life seeps into my very heart

  Orhan Pamuk

  New York, Heart, Color

  Orhan Pamuk (2014). “The New Life: A Novel”, p.104, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Class, Western Culture, Conservative

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• The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the compass is static. It is fixed and rooted in a certain spot. Meanwhile, the other leg draws a huge wide circle around the first one, constantly moving. Just like that, one part of my writing is based in Istanbul. It has strong local roots. Yet at the same time the other part travels the whole wide world, feeling connected to several cities, cultures, and peoples.

  Elif Safak

  Strong, Moving, Writing

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• Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York.

  Genco Gulan

  New York, These Days, Dynamism

  "Istanbul Set to Stamp Its Culture Credentials" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2006.

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• I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith, the teachings of the prophet. That's how I trained myself. And then I was appointed imam by a Sufi master from Istanbul, Turkey.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Philosophy, Islamic, Teaching

  "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 9, 2012.

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Skylines, Kind

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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• The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community.

  Otto Schily

  Years, Community, Netherlands

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• Beginning in 1939, there were events well to the east of Istanbul that seems to have started a progressive sequence to the west. The question is, will the sequence continue further ... Unfortunately, we think the answer is yes.

  Thomas Parsons

  Thinking, Events, East

  " Istanbul advised to brace for major quake", www.cnn.com. April 28, 2000.

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• Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Frustration, Sea, Tourists

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• National consciousness is truly a miraculous thing. When I am not in Turkey I feel even more Turkish than in Istanbul. But when I'm home my European side becomes more apparent.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Turkeys, Sides

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• Its Vermeer" Kat turned to the boy who lingered in the doorway. "It's stolen" "What can I say?" Hale eased behind her and studied the painting over her shoulder. "I met a very nice man who bet me he had the best security system in Istanbul." His breath was warm on the back of her neck. "He was mistaken.

  Ally Carter

  Nice, Boys, Men

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Summer, Brother, Home

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• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  Mary Schmich

  Dream, New York, Coffee

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• He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Drawing, Spy, Rooms

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• We're going to be the underdogs again in Istanbul on the 25th, but that suits us. 
  (on the Champions league Final)

  Steven Gerrard

  Champions League, Underdog, Finals

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• I think the same around the world. At 350.org we just trained 500 young people from around the world in Istanbul for a few weeks. We had 5000 applications from young people who wanted to be part of the training. There's real hunger out there.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• We've proved a lot of people wrong so far but the job is not finished yet and if we come home from Istanbul empty handed then it would be a disaster.

  Steven Gerrard

  Jobs, Home, People

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• I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

  Jane Siberry

  Games, Australia, People

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• Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

  Martin Sorrell

  Digital, Building, Possibility

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Males, Roaches, Half

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