Turns Quotes - Page 18

• A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Criticism, Critics

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• Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spiritual, Book, Writing

  Virginia Woolf (1991). “Paper Darts”

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• In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Children, Pain

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• I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids.

  Joan Rivers

  Sex, Husband, Memorable

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's strange because I'm a sex symbol to 14-year-old girls which I guess is not the most helpful situation to be in. But yeah, I've never really thought of it. It's just so funny. I mean, just last year I couldn't even get a date and then this year, the world turns and it's so bizarre that everybody just changes their mind at the same time.

  Robert Pattinson

  Girl, Sex, Mean

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• Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first.

  Colin Greenland

  Sex, Writing, Cities

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• In literature only trouble is interesting. It takes trouble to turn the great themes of life into a story: birth, love, sex, work, and death.

  Janet Burroway

  Sex, Writing, Interesting

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• In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort of coiling, at a cooler, slower pace, is what the life of this planet looks like. The enormous spirals of typhoons, the twists and turns of mountain ranges and gorges, the waves and the deep ocean currents - a dragonlike writhing.

  Gary Snyder

  Life, Ocean, Creativity

  Gary Snyder (2008). “A Place in Space: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds”, Counterpoint Press

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• One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Men, Years

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• Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

  Al Ries

  Change, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2001). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Song, Thankfulness, Passionate

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• The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique cultural values; with an infinite willingness to work with whatever is positive; and with a determination to help countries and people turn universal principles into concrete action.

  Thoraya Obaid

  Country, Determination, Unique

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• Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!

  John J. Kiernan

  Baseball, Warrior, Light

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• Ours was a history of well-intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.

  Enver Aysever

  Breakup, Fighting, Ends

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• A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Brain, Fool

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• Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Speech, Being Generous

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• Like fresh milk a bad deed does not turn at once. It follows a fool scorching him like a smouldering fire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Fire, Doe

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• It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.

  Jean Hegland

  Sex, Rip, Struggle

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• Loss is like a closed road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who knows what we will discover and see along the way.

  Gerald Lawson Sittser

  Inspirational, Life, Loss

  Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jerry L. Sittser (1998). “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss”, p.130, Zondervan

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• Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.

  Anthony Langston

  Jesus, Wine, Drunk

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• One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

  Mary Blakely

  Inspiring, Children, Soul

  Mary Kay Blakely (1989). “Wake Me when It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back”, Crown

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• If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's culture-economic, political, personal-will be limited only by what is learned from an open, serious, objective study of the subject.

  Don Berliner

  Impact, Political, Culture

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• Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

  Herodotus

  God, Men, People

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• Winter always turns into Spring.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spring, Winter, Winter Rain

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• Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action.

  Rinku Sen

  Information, Action

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