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Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. (Jan Timman)
I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. View quote
Simone Weil
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. View quote
Edmund Burke
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful. View quote
Amy Lee
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. View quote
Kim Wilde
A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden. View quote
Samuel Johnson
A man will turn over half a library to make one book. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. (Hal Borland)
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! View quote
George S. Patton
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. View quote
Steve Jobs
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. View quote
Joseph Addison
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace. View quote
George W. Bush
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively. View quote
Madeleine Stowe
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn. View quote
John le Carré
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. View quote
Willa Cather
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together. View quote
Saffron Burrows
Life is a b movie. It's stupid and it's strange, A directionless story, And the dialogue is lame. But in the he said, she said, Sometimes there's some poetry, If you turn your back long enough, And let it happen naturally. (Ani DiFranco)
The dominant social thought shapes the institutionalized order of society... and the malfunctioning of established institutions in turn alters social thought. View quote
Theodore Schultz
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. View quote
Clarice Lispector
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
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