Turns Quotes
7697 quotes by 4654 authors
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom…
— Hannah Arendt
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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature.
— Rowan Atkinson
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
— Jane Austen
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in…
— Diane Ackerman
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
— Teresa of Avila
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot…
— Douglas Adams
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
— Joan Baez
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
— Enid Bagnold
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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet,…
— Pearl Bailey
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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,…
— Russell Baker
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
— Abu Bakr
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If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
— Alec Baldwin
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Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even…
— James A. Baldwin
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