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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. (Kim Wilde)
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. View quote
Epictetus
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. View quote
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
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. View quote
Seneca
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. (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. View quote
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. (Oliver Goldsmith)
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. View quote
Erica Jong
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. View quote
Richard Bach
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. View quote
Azar Nafisi
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. View quote
Ann Coulter
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