Enes Kanter Quotes

You know, the country is basically peaceful.

I don't much like Singapore. It's very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history.

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

What did the Ottoman Empire bring to the peoples under its yoke other than massacres, oppression, and tyranny?

I want total peace for Colombia.

This country is pretty amazing.

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.

Beautiful things like nature inspire me. Sunrise is my favorite time of the day. A sky full of stars can be very inspiring. Quiet moments where you're alone with yourself and the beauty, nature, and majesty that God has created. That is pretty inspiring.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

Finally from the crease of the ravine I am following, there begins to come the trickling and splashing of water. There is a great restfulness in the sounds these small streams make; they are going down as fast as they can, but their sound seem leisurely and idle, as if produced like gemstones with the greatest patience and care.

Scatter the clouds that hide The face of heaven, and show Where sweet peace doth abide, Where Truth and Beauty grow.

It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

As long as I live, I'll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Nothing matters, but it's perhaps more comfortable to keep calm and not interfere with other people.