Best They Turn Quotes
160 They Turn quotes by 139 unique authors
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People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when…
— Brandon Boyd
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That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.
— Rick Riordan
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and…
— Alfred Austin
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We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles…
— Frans de Waal
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I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and…
— Rodney A. Smolla
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Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn…
— Merle Shain
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What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never…
— Dan Kieran
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From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that…
— Benjamin Hoff
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People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a…
— Peter Forsyth
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into…
— Jonathan Coe
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Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live…
— Mary Pipher
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Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become…
— Shirley Bassey
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in vociferous numbers, sustaining…
— Roger Angell
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You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough…
— Janette Rallison
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The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and…
— Boris Spassky
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A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip off on one…
— Barbara Johnson
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... because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible...
— Plato
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I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because…
— Randy Harrison
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What is it with conservatives? Seriously, I'm not trying to be partisan but it seems like if they're anti-illegal alien, they have illegal aliens working…
— Bill Maher
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There's really a shortage of good freelance writers. ... There are a lot of talented people who are very erratic, so either they don't turn…
— Gloria Steinem
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On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time. You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating…
— Al Stewart
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Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is…
— Ryan Holiday
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