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Turns Quotes by Mark Twain
- Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
- Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time.…
- That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.
- If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help…
- There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a…
- This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the…
- When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.
- There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate…
- To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
- Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to…
- You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is…
- Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric…
- [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting…
More Turns Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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… — 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… — Douglas Adams
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez