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Turns Quotes by Marya Hornbacher
- My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads,…
- For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past…
- We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
- I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater…
- Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you.…
- All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,…
- We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed…
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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… — 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