Turns Quotes

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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
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward. — Billie Joe Armstrong
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
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
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
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
Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. — Enid Bagnold
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
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
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin
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
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. — Alec Baldwin
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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