Stephen Kinzer Quotes

Turks have long admired the sultan, Mehmet II, for his military triumphs, especially his capture of Constantinople, now known as Istanbul, in 1453.

Stephen Kinzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1951

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Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sigrid

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In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Townsend Harris

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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

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It's such a lovely feeling to be in love, to marry the person you love and finally to be with that person. I feel the romance should never go out of any marriage. Even after one has had kids, etc. Love never ends, na?

Riteish Deshmukh

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I do not want to see Hillary Clinton as our next president.

Mitt Romney

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My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

Lucy Alibar

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That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

Jonathan Galassi

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Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager

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Neither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the 'human stratum' may not be homogeneous.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.

Susan B. Anthony

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I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

Kerry Washington

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