Turning Quotes
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I am turning into the person I knew I would.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
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More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas.
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I can’t pretend to have worked my way up through adversity. I need the money not for food like other people, but to prove that I’m worth something. Jaws freed me to discover that a successful movie didn’t make a damn bit of difference to my life.
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Do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
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Turning the pages patiently in search of meanings.
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I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.
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I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.
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I remember, in fifth grade, doing a report on the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as a rap. It was just an easy way to get an A back then because everyone was turning in boring stuff.
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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
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Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
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If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.
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Before I met No I thought that violence meant shouting and hitting and war and blood. Now I know that there can also be violence in silence and that it’s sometimes invisible to the naked eye. There’s violence in the time that conceals wounds, the relentless succession of days, the impossibility of turning back the clock. Violence is what escapes us. It’s silent and hidden. Violence is what remains inexplicable, what stays forever opaque.
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There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.
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Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
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You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.
