Best long & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Turns Talking Economy Cutting Policy Rate Feds Stimulus Better Ways Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Franklin Raines

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”

“With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.”

Kind Long Real Eye Turns Race Concern Blind Statistics Blindness Blind Eyes

Author:Richard Ney

“Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.”

Long Has Beens Turns Class Economic Conservative Beer Solidarity Working Class Buddy

Book:What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

Source: What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.”

Long Soul Turns Hope Watches My Soul Impatience Short Time

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear's days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart pulsing like ours. He was poured from the same first fountain. And whether he at last goes to our stingy Heaven or not, he has terrestrial immortality. His life, not long, not short, knows no beginning , no ending. To him life unstinted, unplanned, is above the accidents of time, and his years, markless and boundless, equal eternity.”

Knows Years Firsts Heart Long Made Lasts Turns Heaven Water Sun Sky Adventure Wind Bears Drink Equal Eternity Blue Breathe Accidents Dust Immortality Fountain Dwelling Boundless Blue Sky Stingy

Author:John Muir

“Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'”

“I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world.”

World Looks Long Stills Moments Eye Spirit Lying Turns Imagination Attention Gone Long Time Shadow Corners Stranger Pay Attention Instant Excess Twilight Spy

Author:Charles de Lint

“When I turn on my central air conditioner, I feel like, "Wow, I really have come a long way." Or buying the super expensive organic raw food for my dogs, and I remember when I had to buy the cheapest big bag of kibble. So I think for me it's often in terms of comfort.”

Thinking Way Feels Long Bigs Remember Turns Term Air Dog Comfort Expensive Buying Bags Wow Remember When Long Way My Dog Turn-on Raw Food Air Conditioner

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“Si l'on vit assez longtemps, on voit que toute victoire se change un jour en de faite. If you live long enough, you'll find that every victory turns into a defeat.”

Ifs Long Enough Turns Victory Defeat

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.”

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.”

Source: Roger Ebert's Video Companion

“You want to know if the heart of a man or a woman can contain enough love for more than one person? ... I think it's perfectly possible as long as one of those people doesn't turn into ... a Zahir.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Men Want Heart Persons Long Enough Turns Enough Love Zahir

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Long before a thermonuclear war can come about, we have had to lay waste our own sanity. We begin with the children. It is imperative to catch them in time. Without the most thorough and rapid brainwashing their dirty minds would see through our dirty tricks. Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.s if possible.”

Ifs Mind Children Long War Turns Fool Waste Lays Tricks Dirty Sanity Rapids Imperatives Thorough Nuclear War Brainwashing Imbeciles Dirty Minds

Book:The Politics of Experience

Source: The Politics of Experience

“A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man who asked me for a dollar. He had asked a few other people before me, but they only passed him by without glancing his way. I stopped and handed the man some money. As I began to turn away, he reached out and shook my hand. He looked me in the eyes and said, "I will bless you." Now, I'm not saying that was God Himself. But how do we know that it wasn't someone working for him, walking around in disguise, just to see what we would do?”

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!”

World Want Kind Long Country Government Night Turns Fighting Stuff Democracy Imagine Vote Army Supposed To Be Imagine That All Night Register Hypocritical Saigon

Author:Malcolm X

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.”

Men Long Has Beens Art Body Together Order Turns Natural Magic Advantage Mere Golden Engaged Maxims Golden Rule Natural Phenomena Dross Applied Science

Author:James G. Frazer

“Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays.”

Long Turns Behinds Naked Locks Delay Foreheads

Book:The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell

“There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.”

Knows Long Moments Happens Turns Late Goodbye Too Late Let Her Go

Author:Johnny Mercer

“And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.”

World Mind Long Young Turns Scene Green Spread Substance Branches Inner World

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

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