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Turn Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected…
- Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a…
- We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to…
- We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our…
- We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.…
- What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin