Turning Quotes

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You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. ...That's how you;ll prepare… — Michelle Obama
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down. — Angelina Grimke
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning pointâ€¦ The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to… — Patrick Kavanagh
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend… — Lee Strobel
All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an… — Stephen Jay Gould
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point… — Oswald Spengler
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration". — Alan Perlis
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious… — Camille Pissarro
An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. — Bruno Rossi
Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to… — P.J. O'Rourke
I found every single successful person I've ever spoken to had a turning point. The turning point was when they made a clear, specific unequivocal… — Brian Tracy
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness… — Sigmund Freud
Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad. — Lalla Ward
See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries? — George Meredith
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived… — George Eliot
A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke… — Danny Hillis
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that… — John Calvin
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as… — J I Packer
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton

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