Turning Quotes
1757 quotes by 1375 authors
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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't…
— E E Cummings
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All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction…
— Henry Adams
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In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Birth Control and abortion are turning out to be the great eugenic advances of our time.
— Frederick Osborn
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What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning…
— Goldie
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From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and…
— Jeff Goodell
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Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young,…
— Jonathan Rosen
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Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I would have to point out in the strongest terms the autocracy of the Liberal structure and the cowardice of its members. I have never…
— Pierre Trudeau
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!' 'The Last Lear'…
— Arjun Rampal
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Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak,…
— Emma Goldman
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CDs are clearly dying out, and it's going to be moving to an all-digital format. Along with it, you raise this interactivity with the music.…
— Girl Talk
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I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree.…
— Guy Ritchie
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A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and…
— Judd Apatow
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
— Jim Fowler
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I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
— Michael J. Fox
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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the…
— Milton Friedman
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I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been…
— Neil Gaiman
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Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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