Turns Quotes

7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. — Louis Auchincloss
My experience working in the Grameen Bank has given me faith; an unshakable faith in the creativity of human beings. It leads me to believe… — Muhammad Yunus
Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more… — Jamie Lee Curtis
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities. — Elwyn Brooks White
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life. — Warren Buffett
Data isn't information. ... Information, unlike data, is useful. While there's a gulf between data and information, there's a wide ocean between information and knowledge.… — Clifford Stoll
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England… — Oscar Wilde
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been… — Mary McCarthy
If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual… — Cyril Connolly
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and… — Bertrand Russell
No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to… — Jonathan Swift
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. — George Santayana
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times. — Alexander Pope
I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance'! White people seem to think the black ought to be shouting 'hallelujah'! Four hundred… — Malcolm X
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to… — Malcolm X
I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them. — Abraham Lincoln
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was… — Abraham Lincoln
God turns clouds inside out to make fluffy beds for the dogs in Dog Heaven, and when they are tired from running and barking and… — Cynthia Rylant
God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the… — Ronald Reagan
Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others… — George Washington

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