Quotes with turns

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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Eric Hoffer It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Aeschylus Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • James Baldwin Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Matt Groening Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
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  • A. E. Housman Lovers lying two and two
    Ask not whom they sleep beside,
    And the bridegroom all night through
    Never turns him to the bride.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 12, st. 4
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Albert Camus Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Anton Chekhov Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Carice van Houten Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Bobby Moynihan My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
    Bobby Moynihan
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1977 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Shapiro Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • James C. Humes One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
    James C. Humes
    American author and former presidential speechwriter (1934 - )
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