Turning Quotes
1757 quotes by 1375 authors
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Just when you thought the mafia novel was dead, Tod Goldberg breathes new life into it. Gangsterland, the best mafia novel in years, is a…
— Sara Gran
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What I don’t like are arrogant people. We’re all equal. I don’t like it when a person assumes to be better. It angers me a…
— Selena
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Turning 102 is crap, and there is nothing to commemorate.
— Oscar Niemeyer
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Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.
— Joe Abercrombie
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The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering…
— Prince Charles
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
— Henri Matisse
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Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light…
— John O'Donohue
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When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our…
— Dale Carnegie
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There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to…
— Phillips Brooks
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There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.
— Muhammad Ali
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Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are…
— Robert Adams
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Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.
— Cliff Stearns
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I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
— Maeve Binchy
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I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from…
— Robert Lowell
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It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
— Thom Yorke
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The United States has done more for the war crimes tribunal than any other country in the world. We're turning over all the information we…
— Warren Christopher
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To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.
— George Foreman
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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
— George Soros
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To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.
— Edith Wharton
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