Turns Quotes - Page 19

• Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

  J. Budziszewski

  Ignorance, Different, Recognition

  J. Budziszewski (2010). “The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man”, p.15, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be ‘a love letter, a prayer, a purge’ but it actually becomes even more than that. It’s a bursting-at-the-seams dream that cradles so many wishes and passions into its wide scope that it constantly surprises with unexpected turns and brilliant thoughts. It transcends its simple mantra-like structure and becomes a reverberating world of beauty and wonder.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Dream, Prayer, Book

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• I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar!

  Margarita Engle

  Ordinary, Way, Soar

  Margarita Engle (2012). “The Wild Book”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Age, Teens, Predictions

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a switch inside every one of us that I guess grew there as a necessary part of survival. How can you drag a fish up out of the river for your supper if you feel the yank of the hook in your own cheek? I get that part. We can't feel for everyone and everything all the time. We'd die of fear or sorrow a hundred times a day. The thing is, it's gotten so we flick the switch off like it's nothing. And, more often than not, we forget to turn it back on.

  Alissa York

  Rivers, Survival, Sorrow

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

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• Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound, nailed, so that we could be free. He was cast out so we could approach. And Jesus took away the only kind of suffering that can really destroy you: that is being cast away from God. He took so that now all suffering that comes into your life will only make you great. A lump of coal under pressure becomes a diamond. And the suffering of a person in Christ only turns you into somebody gorgeous.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.123, Penguin

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• God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move—always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone.

  Scot McKnight

  Jesus, Moving, Reading

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• I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

  Claire Keegan

  Spots, I Can

  Claire Keegan (2010). “Foster”, p.11, Faber & Faber

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• In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most powerful women. By turns shocking, funny, sizzling and illuminating, this story is brilliantly written with an unnerving authenticity that makes it seem all too real. You’re going to want to read this.

  Terry Fallis

  Powerful, Real, Two

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• In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

  Stefan Collini

  Humanity, Trying, Nerves

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• The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

  Derek Lin

  Anxiety, Desire, Want

  Derek Lin (2006). “Tao Te Ching”, p.40, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.

  Erik Reece

  Mountain, World, Sin

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• Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.

  Sybil Adelman

  Love You, Unrequited Love, Passion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills your dreams. You begin to walk on air and see life in brilliant new shades. But it also brings with it a sweet agony, a delicious torture.

  Vikas Swarup

  Dream, Sweet, Air

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• Greater in battle
  than the man who would conquer
  a thousand-thousand men,
  is he who would conquer
  just one —
  himself.
  Better to conquer yourself
  than others.
  When you've trained yourself,
  living in constant self-control,
  neither a deva nor gandhabba,
  nor a Mara banded with Brahmas,
  could turn that triumph
  back into defeat.

  Gautama Buddha

  Men, Self, Battle

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• There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Years, Two, Twenties

  Stephen Mitchell (1999). “The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults”, Harmony

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• Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.

  Paula Sharp

  Loneliness, Grief, Moving

  Paula Sharp (2001). “I Loved You All: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• Let us not turn schools into dumps when we go out and vote on Monday.

  Ramon Paje

  Monday, School, Vote

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• I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.

  Plato

  Mean, Argument, Walks

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility. Your responsibility is to discover what that possibility is for you. Ideas can turn you on, they can wind you up. The right idea can and will add a new dimension to your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Motivational, Moving, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 13, 2011

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• Kindness can turn the bad man's heart, and fools convert to wise, Make poison into nectar-juice, and friends of enemies.

  Bhartrhari

  Wise, Kindness, Heart

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• Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

  Tony Horton

  Leadership, Hands, Focus

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• If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

  Edward Yourdon

  Thinking, Quality, Management

  Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

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• The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or a band, nor is it any further away than the next sentence, the next best guess, the next sketch for the painting of a life portrait that might become a masterpiece. The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation, you can make of it what you will.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Inspirational, Life, Waiting

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