Turns Quotes - Page 36

• For every nation that lives peaceably, there will be many others to grow hard and push their arrogance to extremes; the gods attend to these things slowly. But they attend to those who put off God and turn to madness.

  Sophocles

  Arrogance, Madness, Grows

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.

  Byron Katie

  Writing, Judging, Four

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.151, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every unskilled illegal immigrant who enters the United States for work drives up healthcare costs for every American. And, every illegal immigrant we turn a blind eye toward weakens the rule of law our country is founded on.

  Elton Gallegly

  Country, Eye, Law

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• Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Technology, Circles

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• We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely it is in times like these, when so much that we cherish is threatened or in jeopardy, that we are impelled all the more to strengthen our inner resources, to turn to the things that have no news value because they will be the same to-morrow that they were to-day and yesterday — the things that last, the things that the wisest, the most farseeing of our race and kind have been inspired to utter in forms that can inspire ourselves in turn.

  Laurence Binyon

  Yesterday, Race, Times Like These

  Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School on September 24, 1938. "Books As Source Of Inner Strength", The Times, p. 19, September 26, 1938.

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• I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.

  Frank Rich

  Break Up, New York, Kids

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• It’s funny how all the fussing and fighting turns into us f-king and flying.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Kings, Fighting, Flying

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• Known to act a donkey on the camel-toe, then take the camel-toe and turn it into casserole

  2 Chainz

  Camels, Toes, Donkey

  Song: Yuck!, 2012

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• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  Barbara Boxer

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

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• Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because Thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love's self, hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me?

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Art, Eye, Self

  "The Vision of God".

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• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

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• The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.

  Vyacheslav Molotov

  Election, Trouble, Cold War

  Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in "International Affairs" Vol. 36, (p. 4), 1960.

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• If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.

  Ray Kroc

  Water, Sticks, Mouths

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• God reminds us again and again that things between He and us are forever fixed. They are the rendezvous points where God declares to us concretely that the debt has been paid, the ledger put away, and that everything we need, in Christ we already possess. This re-convincing produces humility, because we realize that our needs are fulfilled. We don’t have to worry about ourselves anymore. This in turn frees us to stop looking out for what we think we need and liberates us to love our neighbor by looking out for what they need.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Humility, Thinking, Worry

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• Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

  David Shannon

  Dust, Cake, Oatmeal

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• When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.

  American McGee

  Reason, Bizarre, Remarkable

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• I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Order, Color

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• People might think you can turn creativity on and off,
  but it's not like that. It just kind of comes out. A mash up of all these things you collect in your mind. You never know when it's gonna happen, but when it does ... it's like magic.
  It's just that simple and it's just that hard.

  Gwen Stefani

  Creativity, Simple, Thinking

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• I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

  Carmen Laforet

  Stories, Decay, Goes On

  Carmen Laforet, Edith Grossman (2007). “Nada”

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• For the beloved should not allow me to turn my infantile fantasies into reality: On the contrary, he should help me to go beyond them.

  Frantz Fanon

  Reality, Helping, Beloved

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.44, Pluto Press

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• It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Country, Creativity, Opportunity

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• And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

  Arthur Cayley

  Thinking, Views, President

  Arthur Cayley, Andrew Russell Forsyth (1963). “The collected mathematical papers of Arthur Cayley”

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• I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Mother, Wife, World

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• Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.

  Rue McClanahan

  Fur, Vegetarian, Vegan

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• The tragedy in our colleges and seminaries right now is that we turn men out who know the word of God. That is never going to turn the world.
  The question is not whether they know the Word of God....
  The question is......Do they know the God of the Word?

  Leonard Ravenhill

  College, Men, Tragedy

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