Quotes with about-turn

Quotes 241 till 260 of 298.

  • Samuel Johnson Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • B. C. Forbes Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Carl Honore Turn the preparing of food into a communal affair by enlisting others to help with the chopping, grating, stirring, simmering, tasting and seasoning. When the cooking is finished, eat together round the table with the electronic gadgets switched off so you can savor the food and let the conversation flow.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Robert H. Schuller Turn your scars into stars
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • George Santayana Variation is a consequence of freedom, and the slight but radical diversity of souls in turn makes freedom requisite.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Cate Blanchett Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Dawkins We have the power to turn against our creators.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Brendan Myers We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Barbara Deming We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Ban Kimoon We must turn the greatest collective challenge facing humankind today – climate change – into the greatest opportunity for common progress towards a sustainable future.
    Big Idea 2014: The Year for Climate Action (2013)
    Ban Kimoon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer We now assume that when people turn on the evening news, they basically already know what the news is. They've heard it on the radio. They've seen it on the Internet. They've seen it on one of the cable companies. So that makes our job a bit different.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Bruce Barton We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Albert Camus We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Brene Brown We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Bob Menendez We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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