Turns Quotes

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I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you… — Christopher Nolan
If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not… — Jon Stewart
I hope that you choose ultimately to follow your heart, and learn that whatever your plans, your goals, your dreams, life will take you in… — Paul Michael Glaser
What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films… — Quentin Tarantino
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down… — Wallace Stegner
But enough is enough. One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief. From the depths of mystery, and even from… — Annie Dillard
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, fuels our love and carries our friendships, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limits... A… — Pat Tillman
Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance. — Jenny Holzer
Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance — Jenny Holzer
All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere managers of national… — J M Coetzee
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man...even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
We all need a story. It just turns out that the story we have been told for years - that people are naturally and primarily… — Ed Mayo
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections… — Russell M. Nelson
Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress… — Marilu Henner
One word, that's all you said and something in your voice caused me to turn my head. Your smile just captured me. — Kenny Chesney
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,-miserable train!- Turns his necessity to glorious gain. — William Wordsworth
Like a fiend in a cloud, With howling woe After night I do crowd And with night will go; I turn my back to the… — William Blake
Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality… — Kofi Annan
Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems… — George Eliot
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer… — Edward Hoagland
Children always turn to the light. — David Hare

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