Turkish Quotes

• Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows.

  Victor Hugo

  Grass, Grows, Miscellaneous

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• The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Heaven, Empires

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• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Giving, World

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• Either our history shall with full mouth
  Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,
  Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,
  Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.

  William Shakespeare

  Mouths, Speak, Graves

  William Shakespeare (1851). “The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere, ed. by C. Knight. National ed. [6]”, p.429

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• We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Keys, Trying, Mystery

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• Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love

  Rumi

  Greek, Language, Speak

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• Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

  Carl Schmitt

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

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• The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just with Armenia with its three million population, but with the ten million Armenians. And let no one ignore the fact that, contrary to any slogans, the Armenian nation is united in its goals and is strong with its sons and daughters.

  Serzh Sargsyan

  Daughter, Strong, Son

  Address of the President of Armenia to the people of the Republic of Armenia and to all Armenians, www.president.am. October 10, 2009.

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• Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Brave, Soldier

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• We all want at renewal of our dialogue and restoration of our relations with Turkey in the interests of Russian and Turkish peoples.

  Vladimir Putin

  Renewal, Relation, Interest

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• In Western Europe, Turkey is regarded as uncivilized, so they can't come in into the European Union until they're civilized. I think it's the other way around. If you could achieve the level of civilization of, say, Turkish intelectuals, it would be quite an achievement.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Europe, Turkeys

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to Tohr on the bed, exhaled some Turkish smoke, and went back for the exit like he couldn't wait to get out of the room. Except he stopped before he left, "I gotchu, my brother," he said to the door. "I know, V. You always have. ~Vishous and Tohrment Lover Reborn

  J.R. Ward

  Brother, Doors, Bullshit

  J. R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: Number 10 in series”, p.429, Hachette UK

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• You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Daughter, Future, Son

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Patience, Sweet, Fruit

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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, Istanbul, Turkeys

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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Leadership, Years, Turkeys

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• Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Phones, Pushing, Buttons

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Government, People

  Source: time.com

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• Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.

  Elif Safak

  Eye, Years, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  Eva Green

  Blood, Borders, Citizens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

  Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

  Past, Race, Order

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• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Army, Ataturk, Staff

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• All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Christian, Atheist

  Thomas Paine (1821). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.2

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