Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

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• Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Want
  • Know

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • College
  • Day

• Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Think
  • Nature
  • Content

• If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • You
  • Never
  • Elephant

• My wife watches me like a hawk.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Wife
  • Like

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Children
  • May
  • Parents

• I think God gives you all good things at the same time.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • America
  • Balance

• I'm very unpredictable, but at the end of the day, I'm working. Sometimes things change in my life. It's like, 'Hold up - that ain't feel good. That felt good.' And that's how I look at anything I do.

  

  Raekwon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Community
  • Training

• One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• The policy is one thing, but it's dictated by what the process is.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Process
  • Policy
  • One Thing

• I think Sephora is great; it's so accessible, and there are so many different palettes that you can get.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Different
  • Think

• I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Parliament
  • Reminded

• Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

  

  Ovid
  • Grief
  • Strength
  • Within

• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Book
  • Like
  • Young

• The people don't run the system; the people are victims of the system. The people choose the leaders thinking that they will help them. But when they turn around, there is no help.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Help

• If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• Right now, our offense is really putting everyone else on its back and carrying us. There's going to be a time when the pitching is going to put everybody on its back and carry us. I just think it's important to note that for us to win a championship, everything has to be going in the right direction. I think that's right around the corner.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • Win
  • Direction
  • Championship

• The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Doctor
  • Knife
  • Murderer