Their Turn Quotes
64 quotes by 57 authors
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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal…
— William J. Clinton
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance…
— George Santayana
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
— William Penn
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How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it…
— Orson Scott Card
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour.…
— Hannibal
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of…
— Plato
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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have…
— Jean-Paul Marat
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As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who are working, in…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves…
— Christopher Dawson
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide…
— William Gurnall
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So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not…
— Robert Sobukwe
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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we…
— Julia Cameron
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Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the…
— Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo
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The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what…
— Eugene Delacroix
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