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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris)
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn. View quote
Neil Innes
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. View quote
Stephen Stills
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark. View quote
O. Henry
If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. (Stephen Hawking)
I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my characters are in danger, I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps. View quote
George R. R. Martin
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said. View quote
Alan Greenspan
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. View quote
Timothy Leary
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were. View quote
Hans Blix
The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. (James A. Garfield)
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. View quote
Michael Jordan
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. View quote
H. G. Wells
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