Turning Quotes
1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors
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If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply…
— Alexander Haig
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment…
— Napoleon Hill
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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big…
— James Hillman
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good…
— Ted Hughes
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The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
— Helen Hunt Jackson
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I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look…
— Jewel
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Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
— Leon Kass
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
— Franz Kafka
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I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
— Thomas Keller
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What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
— Thomas a Kempis
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It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in…
— Eartha Kitt
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I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
— Emeril Lagasse
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career…
— Queen Latifah
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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may…
— Philip Larkin
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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the…
— William Law
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
— Max Lerner
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I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
— Lindsay Lohan
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The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's…
— Baz Luhrmann
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We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
— Loretta Lynn
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Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly.
— Harvey Mackay
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My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
— Hilary Mantel
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I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in…
— Matthew McConaughey
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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was…
— Jon Meacham
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