Turns Quotes - Page 35

• As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Fire, Glowing

  Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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• Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Waiting, Be Patient, Unfaithful

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• We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Sisterhood, Men, Our World

  "Acceptance Speech: Liberian Noble Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee Talks About the Struggles of African Women". face2faceafrica.com. December 12, 2011.

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• When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

  Jim Hightower

  Political, Politics, Journalism

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• I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

  Scott McCloud

  Looks, Kind, Difficult

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.

  Danny Elfman

  Wall, Moving, Ideas

  "Q&A: Danny Elfman". Interview with Kevin Cassidy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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• The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that allures with a potent charm, and the creature, who trembles before it, utterly cowed and cast down, has always at the same time the impulse to turn to it, nay even to make it somehow his own.

  Rudolf Otto

  Mind, May, Horror

  Rudolf Otto (1959). “The Idea of the Holy”, p.25, Ravenio Books

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Acceptance, Persistence

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• A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

  Leon Trotsky

  Mean, Needs, Justified

  Leon Trotsky (2000). “Their Morals and Ours: The Marxist View of Morality”, p.37, Resistance Books

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• To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

  Loreena McKennitt

  People, Interesting, Territory

  "Times of Discovery". Interview with Anil Prasad, www.innerviews.org. 1991.

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• Being of good cheer makes it possible for us to turn all of our sunsets into sunrises.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Cheer, Sunset, Sunrise

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Home, Might, Great Depression

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• It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Sound, Stories, Actors

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• But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance

  Norton Juster

  Trying, Doing You, Enthusiasm

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Growth, Special

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• The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Guy, Secret, Gold

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• What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

  Ellen Willis

  Turn Me

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• Everything at a distance turns into
  poetry; distant mountains, distant
  people, distant events; all become
  Romantic.

  Novalis

  Distance, People, Mountain

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• I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Eye, Thinking, Mind

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• Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Heritage, Firsts, Bees

  Jean-Henri Fabre (1998). “The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

  Jacque Fresco

  Soldier, Machines, Killing

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• The race to win turns us all into losers.

  Alfie Kohn

  Winning, Race, Loser

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.448, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

  Jerry Stahl

  Unhappiness, Turn Me

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• Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Humanity, Wheels

  Friedrich Schiller, Walter Hinderer (1993). “Essays”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

  Michael Vick

  Football, Running, Strong

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