Turned Quotes

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It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as… — George Washington
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its… — Chris Hedges
Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had… — Archibald MacLeish
And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a… — Unknown Author
It turned out so well because it was the first album that I could identify with in terms of lyrics. ("Captain Fantastic") It was passionate...I… — Elton John
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… — Walter Lippmann
My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took… — Margot Asquith
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my… — Jane Lynch
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in which power was… — Richard M. Nixon
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
Often the great scientists, by turning the problem around a bit, changed a defect to an asset. For example, many scientists when they found they… — Richard Hamming
Twenty-seven people sang 'Wind Beneath My Wings' before I got around to it. A lot of people saw the movie that I sang it in,… — Bette Midler
I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is,… — Joan Baez
Walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heartbreak. Trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. The entertainment business. What voyeurs… — Margaret Atwood
They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as… — Adolf Hitler
It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down — Billie Jean King
Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series. — Bob Hope
When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned… — Charles Caleb Colton

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