Turned Quotes
3567 quotes by 2409 authors
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As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient…
— Lydia M. Child
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets,…
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be…
— Mary Karr
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into…
— Christopher Fry
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I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up…
— Jimmy Fallon
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I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into…
— Joseph Campbell
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Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned…
— George Raveling
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
— Clement of Alexandria
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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.
— Louis Kronenberger
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If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt…
— Stephenie Meyer
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In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers…
— Martin Rees
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When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.
— Jennifer Lopez
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Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to…
— Karl Kraus
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Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of…
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he…
— Rita Rudner
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As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient…
— Tammy Bruce
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