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Quotes About Turn

It requires a deliberate mental effort to turn biology the right way up again, and remind ourselves that the replicators come first, in importance as well as in history.
~ Richard Dawkins
Frances Catherine, I'm going to win this argument," Judith announced. She nodded to her friend when she made that prediction. "Why?" "Because it's my turn," she explained. "You may win the next argument." "Lord, you're stubborn.
~ Julie Garwood
Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!
~ John Galsworthy
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
~ Thomas More
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
~ Robert Jordan
That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.
~ Bruce Springsteen
The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
~ John Donne
Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.
~ James Cook
Everyone now has a sacred cow in the tax code. For my money, the most sacred thing of all is our country and its growth, but the sacred cows have turned into a pack of wolves.
~ Ari Fleischer
Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.
~ Gillian Welch
We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers.
~ Andrew McCutchen
I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.
~ Donald Byrd
I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'
~ Melissa Etheridge
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
~ Barry Mann
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
I pray that on this day [Christmas] when only peace and good-will are preached to mankind, better thoughts may fill the hearts of our enemies and turn them to peace.
~ Robert E. Lee
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
~ Jacques Derrida
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
~ Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.
~ William Devane
This anger in your eyes, is it because you are hunting the Windigo?". "I don't know what it is I'm hunting, Henry." Meloux nodded thoughtfully, still looking keenly at Cork. "The Windigo was a man once. His heart was not always ice. What makes a man's heart turn to ice? I would think bout that, and I would think about how to fight the Windigo.
~ William Kent Krueger
There was that name again, stumbling accidentally from his lips. As soon as it was out, it seemed to turn like a boomerang and hit his heart.
~ William Kent Krueger
the neoliberal turn is in some way and to some degree associated with the restoration or reconstruction of the power of economic elites.
~ David Harvey