Turns Quotes - Page 19

• Drive Nature forth by force, she'll turn and rout
  The false refinements that would keep her out.

  Horace

  Environment, Force, Refinement

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.373, Delphi Classics

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• O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Folly, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

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• Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

  Kelly Slater

  Ocean, Surfing, Get Better

  Intensity Magazine Interview, www.bodybuilding.com. July 29, 2004.

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• It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.

  Jeff Clark

  Surfing, Surfer, Culmination

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• Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Book, Garden, Twists

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• Ordinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage.

  Enoch L. Johnson

  Motivational, People, Ordinary

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• The path to realizing our dreams is never smooth. Invariably we encounter bends, turns, detours, and roadblocks. Sometimes our frustrations make us want to give up the journey, but frustrations signal the need to pause for introspection and redirection. Frustrations are promptings from God to search our souls even more deeply to find our power and purpose, and to live it. Frustrations tell us that our thoughts and actions are not yet in harmony with our desires.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Dream, Giving Up, Frustration

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.64, Anchor

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• From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.

  Terry Eagleton

  People, Political, Everyday

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• One good turn asketh another.

  John Heywood

  Kindness

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.452

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• Let any man turn to God in earnest, let him begin to exercise himself unto godliness, let him seek to develop his powers of spiritual receptivity by trust and obedience and humility, and the results will exceed anything he may have hoped in his leaner and weaker days.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Spiritual, Humility, Exercise

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• There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

  Winston Churchill

  Revenge, Blessed, Past

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt.

  Trevor Baylis

  Ideas, Mind, Machines

  "The Riddle: Where Ideas Come From and How to Have Better Ones". Book by Andrew Razeghi, 2008.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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