Turns Quotes

7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. — Euripides
Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is… — BrenÃ© Brown
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. — Confucius
There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. — Robert Breault
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are. — Jim Shepard
The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. — Don Williams
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by… — Isaac Asimov
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their… — Wilfred Trotter
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear. — Bertolt Brecht
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. — Bertolt Brecht
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him… — Ramana Maharshi
The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed. — Jeff Greenfield
Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away. — Stewart Brand
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. — James A. Garfield
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out. — Wiz Khalifa
Remorse turns us against ourselves. — Nicolas Chamfort
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in… — Sarah Fielding
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze… — Therese of Lisieux

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