#eli

The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#army #believing #control #could #haven

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#being #feeling #flourish #margins #movements

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#common #common goal #develop #does #goal

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just ↗

— Michela Wrong

#inquisition #middle-ages #religion #age

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything. ↗

— Molly Parker

#bad #control #directors #everything #feeling

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— Robert M. Parker, Jr.

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down. ↗

— Suzy Parker

#believe #down #gold #gold standard #i

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. ↗

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

#believed #faith #giants #great #history

Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts. ↗

— Rod Parsley

#against #agenda #attempt #courts #culture

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs. ↗

— Alan Parsons

#cheap #deals #delighted #did #frustrating