Quotes with turn-tables

Quotes 121 till 140 of 307.

  • Art Linkletter In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Bliss Carman Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Thomas à Kempis It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
    Source: C.S. Lewis on joy
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Margaret Thatcher It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Barry Mann It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Edward Hoagland It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Bill Haslam Lawyers don't serve everyone... Lawyers right now can say, 'I'm not the person to help you on that issue; I don't agree with what you're trying to do;' and they can turn down that person, and they can go somewhere else.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Alice Miller Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
    Alice Miller
    Polish-born Swiss psychologist (1923 - 2010)
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  • Alice Meynell Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Bram Stoker Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
    Source: Dracula
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Hayden Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Marina Warner Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you.
    Marina Warner
    British writer and feminist (1946 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Luxury
    Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
    And odious Pride a Million more;
    Envy it self, and Vanity,
    Were Ministers of Industry;
    Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
    In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
    That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
    The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.
    Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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