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Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished… — H. L. Mencken
I envision a day when every city and town has front and back yards, community gardens and growing spaces, nurtured into life by neighbors who… — Greg Peterson
I think jeans have gotten away from the original meaning, that symbol of freedom; they've gone gimmicky and turned into a status item. Our denim… — Johan Lindeberg
Now when the ancient Egyptians, awestruck and wondering, turned their eyes to the heavens, they concluded that two gods, the sun and the moon, were… — Diodorus Siculus
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing… — Mark Zandi
I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. — Channing Tatum
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… — George Orwell
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead,… — Edward R. Murrow
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the… — Neil Postman
I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then… — Fred Couples
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — Jonathan Kozol
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really… — Reynolds Price
Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned… — Louis Sullivan
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life. — Alan Bennett
Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble
I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very… — Helmut Newton
This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any… — Paul Nurse
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton… — Frank Ocean
When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the… — Kevin O'Leary
I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would… — Terry O'Quinn
I turned down all the requests for the rights to the books, for years, mostly because they wanted the rights to the characters, and to… — Louise Penny

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