Quotes with about-turn

Quotes 281 till 298 of 298.

  • Bart Stupak Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
    Bart Stupak
    American politician (1952 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Betsey Johnson With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Benjamin Cardozo With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or for warning, to the study of examples.
    Source: Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bernard Berenson You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • William Hogarth You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
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  • Henrik Ibsen You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Blake Farenthold You turn on the TV, and you hear all these guys: 'Republican Party in disarray. Turmoil in Washington.' I don't think that's the case.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Carl Honore Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Boris Yeltsin Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Salvatore Satta His vocation was orderliness, which is the basis of creation. Accordingly, when a letter came, he would turn it over in his hands for a long time, gazing at it meditatively; then he would put it away in a file without opening it, because everything had its own time.
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  • B. W. Powe If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
    Source: Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 161
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Edgar Allan Poe In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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