Turns Quotes
7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
— E. W. Howe
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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts…
— Mary Robinson
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I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest…
— Hendrik Tennekes
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And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today, climate change, into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future
— Ban Ki-moon
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Climate change is the greatest threat to our common future. We have a very short period of time to tackle the problem before it becomes…
— Chris Huhne
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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.
— Stephen Stills
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The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favorites; but he is…
— Freya Stark
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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
— Oswald Chambers
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Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath,…
— Henry Moore
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Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
— George Bernard Shaw
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He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.
— Unknown Author
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In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture…
— Thomas Aquinas
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When God saves a man, He is regenerating his heart, turns him into a new creature, and the evidence is this ... he will live…
— Paul Washer
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The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of…
— Peter Drucker
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When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to…
— Stephen Levine
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Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.
— Marianne Williamson
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Truth as a cultural ideal has functioned as an opiate, perhaps the only serious opiate of the modern world. Karl Marx said that religion was…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds…
— Ray Bradbury
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We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on…
— Simone Campbell
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Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry. We are always in such a frantic hurry. In the light of…
— Oswald Chambers
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If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I…
— Carrie Newcomer
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