Quotes with turns

Quotes 101 till 120 of 122.

  • Ben Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William Shakespeare Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / and vice sometimes by action dignified.
    Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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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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  • Andrew Wiles Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Bee Wilson What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Bono What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Stewart Brand When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
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  • Bob Parsons When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Arthur Wellesley When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • George Eliot When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Orson Welles When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Woman for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: ''Blind yourself, for I am blind.''
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Work creates an enormous sense of self and I saw that in my mother. She was an enormous, towering figure to me in the best possible way. I picked up a lot of things from her in the way that I work... I also picked up a lot of the failings of when your father doesn't have those things and that results in a house that turns into a minefield.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bill Murray Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Ullman Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
    Samuel Ullman
    American businessman, poet and humanitarian (1840 - 1924)
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  • Anne Lamott You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • W. C. Fields You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Annie Dillard Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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