Turn Quotes

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. — George Bernard Shaw
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being,… — Norman Mailer
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more… — Jamie Lee Curtis
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England… — Oscar Wilde
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual… — Cyril Connolly
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to… — Jonathan Swift
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. — George Santayana
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred… — Malcolm X
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to… — Malcolm X

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