Turned Away Quotes

91 quotes by 84 authors

How can it be, in a country as strong and rich as this one, that tens of thousands of Americans who need legal representation are… — Ron Wyden
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
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
[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours… — William Halsey
A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of… — C.S. Lewis
And once again I believe that nothing that's important really becomes lost. We just delude ourselves, thinking that we own the things, the moments and… — Miguel Sousa Tavares
I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking… — John Banville
The special relationship between the United States and Israel still stands. Our total committments to Israel's security and our hope for peace is still preeminent… — Jimmy Carter
If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones. — Max Allan Collins
People have been turned away from hospitals simply because they have no insurance. People have been put out of hospitals because they have reached the… — Sheila Jackson Lee
There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and… — Pat Roberts
And none of these people, not one of them, had loved any of the others well enough. Failures, he thought, we're all failures... He wanted… — Sherman Alexie
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my… — Janet Fitch
And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and… — A. D. Gordon
I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and… — Kabir
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did… — Philip Yancey
These patients have turned away from outer reality; it is for this reason that they are more aware than we of inner reality and can… — Sigmund Freud
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they… — Isaac Asimov
...one's movement towards the divine reaches its end only when one reaches God... 'The true Sabbaths are the rest laid up for the people of… — Maximus the Confessor
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South. They… — Isabel Wilkerson

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