Best taken & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.”

Faces Turns Prayer Taken Sky Wall Empty Emptiness Detachment Numbness Airy

Book:The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

Source: The Half-Finished Heaven: Selected Poems

“We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.”

“When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.”

“In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait.”

Wells Country Turns Three Waiting Taken Industry Glory Decades Queens Sequels Worth The Wait

Author:Joe Morgenstern

“I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow culture. My goodness, the celebrity ethos has taken over completely. Turn on the television and you see that over and over. There's very little substance. And so, everything gets shorter. Everything is entertainment oriented. Our churches reflect that. A thirty-five minute sermon without a Power Point or video clips is rare these days. That's not true in other countries so much.”

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”

Giving Wells Whole Certain Turns Democracy Taken Acceptance Comfort Fortune Obvious Curious Well Being Sanctions

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“In most cases, to be reasonable means not to be obstinate, which in turn points to conformity with reality as it is. The principle of adjustment is taken for granted. When the idea of reason was conceived, it was intended to achieve more than the mere regulation of the relation between means and ends: it was regarded as the instrument for understanding the ends, for determining them.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.”

Ifs Men World Turns Peace Numbers Taken Display Royal Marine Tournaments Precision Large Numbers Drills

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights; and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.”

Way Turns Path Taken Feet Delight My Way Fancy Rough Smooth Velvet Steep Rosebuds Rose Buds

Book:A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza

Source: A sentimental journey through France and Italy: to which are added the letters to Eliza

“I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'”

Men Care Turns Parent My Own Taken College

Author:Eric Close

“I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.”

People Giving Persons Long Stills Sometimes Shows Pain Values Turns Strong Forget Taken Fans Stage Long Time Beats Entertainment Mike Forget You

Author:Axl Rose

“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?”

Ifs Thinking Trying Littles Art Done School Turns Stuff Bits Careers Taken Worst Little Bit Cooking Shops Worst Things Sewing Art Music Woodworking Welding

Author:Temple Grandin

“There have been many measures taken to try to turn the educational system towards more control, more indoctrination, more vocational training, imposing a debt, which traps students and young people into a life of conformity... That's the exact opposite of [what] traditionally comes out of The Enlightenment. And there's a constant struggle between those. In the colleges, in the schools, do you train for passing tests, or do you train for creative inquiry?”

“Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise. ... The cunningest hunger is hunted in turn, and what he leaves of his kill is meat for some other. That is the economy of nature, but with it all there is not sufficient account taken of the works of man. There is no scavenger that eats tin cans, and no wild thing leaves a like disfigurement on the forest floor.”

Source: Essential Mary Austin: A Selection of Mary Austin's Best Writing

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Only two things I know about Albuquerque - Bugs Bunny should've taken a left turn there. And give me a hundred tries, I'll never be able spell it.”

Knows Giving Should Trying Two Able Turns Left Taken Hundred Give Me Two Things Spells Bugs Bunnies Albuquerque

Author:Jimmy McGill

“While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.”

Way Should Mother Turns Taken Silent Affair Very Happy Gross Bans Dave Platonic Monogamous Relationship

Author:Frances Bean Cobain

“Teaching is another area I like to explore. I've had a lot of great role models and people who have taken the time over the years to help me - and the wheel turns.”

People Years Helping Turns Roles Taken Teaching Models Areas Wheels Help Me Role Models Great Role Models

Author:Ralph Strangis

“Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.”

Christian Turns Stuff Sound Taken Type Band Worship Christian Music Worship Music

Author:Alan Powell

“I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.”

Way Turns Taken Articles Request Playboy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“A leader is a person who has learned to obey a discipline imposed from without, and has then taken on a more rigorous discipline from within. Those who rebel against authority and scorn self-discipline - who shirk the rigors and turn from the sacrifices - do not qualify to lead.”

Persons Self Christian Turns Leadership Leader Taken Sacrifice Discipline Authority Rebel Self Discipline Scorn Rigor Shirk Spiritual Leadership

Book:Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

Source: Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer

“The term "bend sinister" means a heraldic bar or band drawn from the left side (and popularly, but incorrectly, supposed to denote bastardy). This choice of title was an attempt to suggest an outline broken by refraction, a distortion in the mirror of being, a wrong turn taken by life, a sinistral and sinister world. The title's drawback is that a solemn reader looking for "general ideas" or "human interest" (which is much the same thing) in a novel may be led to look for them in this one.”

World Humans Looks May Mean Ideas Turns Choices Left Sides Term Interest Novel Taken Broken Reader Band Mirrors Bars Titles Solemn Outlines Distortion Sinister Drawbacks Wrong Turn

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.”

Men Different Turns Taken One Man Orange Elders English History

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.”

Ifs Different Turns Destiny Taken Battle Criminals Propaganda Providence Incapable Scoundrels

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.”

Giving Mean Turns Speak Steps Taken Nice Pride Circles Nice Things Steps Forward

Author:Roger Federer

“There is no way to escape the doing of our world, so what a warrior does is to turn his world into his hunting ground. As a hunter, a warrior knows that the world is made to be used. So he uses every bit of it. A warrior is like a pirate that has no qualms in taking and using anything he wants, except that a warrior doesn't mind or he doesn't feel insulted when he is used and taken himself”

Knows World Way Want Feels Mind Doe Made Use Used Turns Bits Taken Warrior Our World Hunting Hunters Pirate Insulted Don Juan Qualms

Book:Journey to Ixtlan

Source: Journey to Ixtlan

“If and when a horror turns up you will then be given Grace to help you. I don't think one is usually given it in advance. "Give us our daily bread" (not an annuity for life) applies to spiritual gifts too; the little daily support for the daily trial. Life has to be taken day by day and hour by hour.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Littles Helping Spiritual Turns Given Hours Support Taken Grace Horror Trials Bread Ifs And Daily Bread Spiritual Gifts Our Daily Bread

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.”

Important Different Turns Taken Five Materials Different Things I Have Learned Anticipate Material Things

Author:Tom Ford

“Walden - all his books, indeed - are packed with subtle, conflicting, and very fruitful discoveries. They are not written to prove something in the end. They are written as the Indians turn down twigs to mark their path through the forest. He cuts his way through life as if no one had ever taken that road before, leaving these signs for those who come after, should they care to see which way he went.”

Ifs Way Should Book Ends Care Turns Path Taken Cutting Written Prove Discovery Mark Leaving Forests Subtle Twigs

Book:The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

Source: The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918

“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)”

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