Quotes with turn-tables

Quotes 181 till 200 of 307.

  • Bernard of Clairvaux Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
    And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
    Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
    On me, with compassion fraught,
    Let Thy glances fall.
    Thy cross of agony,
    My Beloved, look on me;
    Turn me wholly unto Thee;
    Be thou whole, say openly:
    I forgive thee all.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to have to live in a secondary position in human space flight for the rest of the century.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bokeem Woodbine Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
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  • Stephen Hawking Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Aaron Klug Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Jonathan Safran Foer Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2013) 179
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    American novelist (1977 - )
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  • John Holt Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Buffy Sainte-Marie Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
    Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Indigenous Canadian-American singer-songwriter and musician (1941 - )
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Boris Kodjoe Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Brad Feld Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Maya Angelou Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Anna Seward Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.
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  • Denis Waitley That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Ronald Laing The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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