“ So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will only enter a synagogue for the or of a friend's child, or in order to have a deba… Christopher Hitchens
“ La semaine dernière, nous avons pris une décision. Nous allions sortir pour déblayer les briques. Des femmes de notre quartier y travaillaient quotidiennement. Les Trümmerfrauen. Elles nettoyaient les… Barbara Taylor Bradford
“ A une époque de sa vie, il y avait de cela de nombreuses années, elle avait perdu sa foi en Dieu. Elle l'avait maudit, haï, accusé d'être responsable de tous les maux de la terre. Mais le mal n'était… Barbara Taylor Bradford
“ From the first, Istanbul had given him the impression of a town where, with the night, horror creeps out of the stones. It seemed to him a town the centuries had so drenched in blood and violence that… Ian Fleming
“ It should have been the Arabian Nights, but to Bond, seeing it first above the tops of trams and above the great scars of modern advertising along the river frontage, it seemed a once beautiful theatr… Ian Fleming
“ I am speaking of the evenings when the sun sets early, of the fathers under the streetlamps in the back streetsreturning home carrying plastic bags. Of the old Bosphorus ferries moored to desertedstat… Orhan Pamuk
“ I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing. Natalie Cole
“ This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer. Jeanette Winterson
“ There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city! Mehmet Murat ildan
“ To the one in the skies, this city must look like a scintillating pattern of speckled glows in all directions, like a firecracker going off amid thick darkness. Right now the urban pattern glowing her… Elif Shafak
“ Wars have been waged over millions of square miles, significantly larger than the British Empire at its peak. Historically, Islamic conquests stretched from southern France to the Philippines, from Au… Anita B. Sulser PhD
“ In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I have seen in so many of Istanbul's rich, Westernised, secularist families is evident in these silences.… Orhan Pamuk
