Turns Quotes - Page 40

• Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

  Janet Guthrie

  Race, Car, Males

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• The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

  Philip J. Davis

  Math, Numbers, Helping

  Philip J. Davis, William G. Chinn (1985). “3.1416 and all that”, Birkhauser

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• The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun. Barriers may be built across its path, but they bring only power, as the conquering of an obstacle is always sure to do. Sometimes when the rocks and stone-clad hills loom large ahead, and eternity itself would be needed to carve a passage, there is an easy way around. The discovery of it makes the river sing with gladness and turns the murmurous deeps to living water, bright with ripples and foam.

  Myrtle Reed

  Summer, Rivers, Rocks

  Myrtle Reed (2017). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.58, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

  Freeman Dyson

  Education, Science, Imagination

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• I don't think that in a technical legal sense it matters, ... It's neutral as to Libby because he has been indicted for perjury and for lying, and nothing in his account seems to sanitize those lies if in fact they turn out to be lies.

  Rodney A. Smolla

  Lying, Thinking, Deceit

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• To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, Organization, Way

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

  Horace Mann

  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.

  Tammy Bruce

  Brother, Husband, Welfare

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• People turn their eyes and ears to him (the sage), and the sage cares for them like his own children.

  Laozi

  Children, Eye, Compassion

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• Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

  Richard Harris

  Kids, Careers, Choices

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I liked Truman very much. He was precise and businesslike. After a while, it was his turn.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Truman, Precise

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• I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off.

  Donald Pleasence

  Believe, Actors, And Off

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• Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.

  R. J. Reynolds

  Smoking, Adults, Replacements

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• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

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• I think that a lot of times, I trust people I shouldn't, and it turns out right, and it makes me feel a little better about it.

  Lauren Conrad

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  Ed O'Neill

  Thinking, Personality, May

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• As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USA stand out for their extreme use of this form of punishment as the 'top' executioners in the world.

  Irene Khan

  Iran, Punishment, Usa

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• When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Tired, Eye, People

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• SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD:
  Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Football, Sunday, Garden

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• Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

  Henry R. Luce

  Discovery, Poet, Easier

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• It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Jobs, Gold, Emotion

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• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  Frances E. Willard

  Moving, Law, Progress

  Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.18, Read Books Ltd

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Grateful, Book, Thinking

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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