Turned Back Quotes

66 quotes by 54 authors

There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
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
Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself. — James Jeans
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you… — Swami Vivekananda
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but… — Paul Tibbets
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
There's an old saying in the days of slavery, there are those slaves who lived on the plantation, and there were those slaves who lived… — Harry Belafonte
Colin Powell's committed to come into the house of the master. When Colin Powell dares to suggest something other than what the master wants to… — Harry Belafonte
The fantasy never got beyond thatâ€”I didnâ€™t let itâ€”and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasnâ€™t sobbing or out of control. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro
In the land of Israel was born the Jewish nation. There came an order to kill the religious and social spirit of the people. .… — David Ben-Gurion
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!… — Edgar Allan Poe
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of… — Taylor Caldwell
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. — Daniel Suarez
Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. — Robert A. Heinlein
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and… — Ian Mckellen
Many people have turned back because they are afraid to look at things from God's perspective. The greatest spiritual crisis comes when a person has… — Oswald Chambers
In public schooling, social policy has been turned back almost one hundred years. — Jonathan Kozol
Often, when you see yourself on the screen, you feel like a sweater that's been put through the washing machine. You have the impression of… — Emmanuelle Beart
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating… — Swami Vivekananda
Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all… — A. E. Coppard

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