Turning Quotes
1757 quotes by 1375 authors
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
— Matthew Scully
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Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal…
— Philippe Starck
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I…
— Cynthia Ozick
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It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but…
— Vincent de Paul
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And what we can see if we look deep within is that the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Do not try to remake…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed…
— Brandon Sanderson
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[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even…
— William Penn
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Perhaps history is a thing that would stop happening if God held His breath, or could be imagined as turning away to think of something…
— Herbert Butterfield
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It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward…
— Leonard Nimoy
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I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own…
— Meera Syal
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The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
— Tom Peters
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I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
— Georges Bataille
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The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.
— Allen Newell
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The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you…
— Daniel Dennett
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Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the…
— Jon Stewart
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I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to…
— George W. Bush
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We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return The coming of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the…
— Chellie Pingree
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There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exists or not, that no one is interested in what we have…
— Paulo Coelho
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