Susan Moody famous quotes

Istanbul ... the constant beating of the wave of the East against the rock of the West ...
-- Susan Moody

#Europe #Cities #Istanbul

impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.
-- Susan Moody

#Roots #Sometimes #Logical

Time does not act on memory to soften the edges, blur the details; if anything, it sharpens them. Emotions may lose their acid outlines, but not places and people, not if you wish to retain them.
-- Susan Moody

#Memories #People #Wish

You don't have to be sincere yourself to recognize sincerity when you see it. Any more than you have to be insane to recognize insanity.
-- Susan Moody

#Insanity #Perception #Insane

Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.
-- Susan Moody

#Rope #Golden #Watches

martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.
-- Susan Moody

#Sacrifice #People #Martyr

... danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability.
-- Susan Moody

#Danger #Respectability

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning.
-- Susan Moody

#Giving #Goes On #Ends

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences.

Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

Istanbul these days has as much dynamism as New York.

In Istanbul I met a man who said he knew beyond a doubt that God was a cat. I asked why he was so sure, and the man said, "When I pray to him, he ignores me."