Turned Quotes

3567 Turned quotes by 2409 unique authors

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do… — Henry David Thoreau
We do not wait for inspiration. We work because we've jolly well got to. But when all is said and done, we toil at this… — Ngaio Marsh
Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel — Sara Paretsky
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis… — Nelson Mandela
Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums… — Pablo Picasso
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school… — Retief Goosen
I knew I had him in the first round. Almighty God was with me. I want everyone to bear witness, I am the greatest! I'm… — Muhammad Ali
You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past… — Tiger Woods
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach
I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more… — Gillian Flynn
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and… — Billy Gibbons
When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is… — Plotinus
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger… — Alan Turing
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to… — Vasily Grossman
And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Bible says that God gave this earth to the sons of men ... and when [Adam] turned and gave that dominion to Satan, look… — Kenneth Copeland
The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy.… — Emma Goldman
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my… — Max Stirner
It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right… — Tom Clancy
We will establish ourselves in Palestine whether you like it or not...You can hasten our arrival or you can equally retard it. It is however… — Chaim Weizmann
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that. — Benedict Cumberbatch
In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what?… — Hunter S. Thompson
It's been my habit of mind, over these years, to understand that every situation in which human beings are involved can be turned on its… — Richard Ford
We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have… — Alan Keyes
Beneath the blossoms with a pot of wine, No friends at hand, so I poured alone; I raised my cup to invite the moon, Turned… — Li Bai

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