Turns Quotes

7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,… — Robert Browning
There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to… — Phillips Brooks
I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our… — Unknown Author
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our… — R. D. Laing
The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the… — Merlin Olsen
Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast. — Tony Hsieh
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account. — Thomas Carlyle
I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat.… — Thomas Kinkade
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,… — Charles Baudelaire
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the… — Nolan Ryan
It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision… — Dinaw Mengestu
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we… — Dinaw Mengestu
Inconsistency is my very essence; it is the game I never cease to play as I turn my wheel in its ever changing circle, filled… — Boethius
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself.… — Edward Abbey
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn… — Thomas Jefferson
The general desire of men to live by their heads rather than their hands, and the strong allurements of great cities to those who have… — Thomas Jefferson
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer. — George Washington
One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently… — Thomas Paine
When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be… — Annie Leibovitz
The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth. — Robert Adams
There is only one I actually. That I is Consciousness. When you follow the personal I to the source, it turns into the universal I,… — Robert Adams
How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it… — Orson Scott Card

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