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“I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.”

People Enough Turns Stars Millions Minutes Rocks Stage Fronts Tvs Thousand Lucky Concerts Rock Star Spinal Tap

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.”

Thinking World Want Enough Shows Would Be Turns Millions Couple Singing Beyonce

Author:Billie Piper

“I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.”

Thinking Enough Young Turns Girl Honest Being Honest Mature Modeling Every Girl

Author:Anja Rubik

“The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.”

Ifs Knows I Can Two Enough Able Turns Next Race Know How Middle Pure Starting Entertainment Honestly Get Up Packs Championship Will Power Grids Latches

Author:Dan Wheldon

“Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.”

Enough Hands Running Turns Republican Machines Democrat Wheels Had Enough

Author:Thomas Frank

“It seems to me that our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power—specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.”

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.”

Has Beens Enough Turns Sports Lines Memories Wonderful Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Good Enough Rolling Thrill Treasured

Author:Curt Gowdy

“Today, when people say they cannot believe, it is not a mental problem; it is a matter of the will of the heart- they do not want to believe. Some say they have certain 'mental reservations,' mental hurdles which they cannot get over. My friend, your mind is not big enough to take even one little hurdle. The problem is never in the mind but in the will. There is sin in the life, and a man does not want to turn to God; he does not want to believe Him.”

People Men Want Mind Believe Heart Littles Doe Matter Enough Problem Bigs Today Christian Certain Turns Sin My Friends Get Over Reservations Hurdle Turn To God

Book:Proverbs Through Malachi

Source: Proverbs Through Malachi

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.”

Giving Wells Enough Turns Stuff Sleep Poor Lord Clear Stupid Drink Humorous Mad Rate Beer Tunes Melancholy Cows Verses Rhyme Belly Ache Pipe Lad Chaps Sleep Well

Author:A. E. Housman

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life span. But are they smart enough to solve the problems of the 21st century?”

Humans Has Beens Ends Enough Problem Turns Wealth Human Beings Century Smart Average Solve 21st Century Life Span Average Life

Author:Thomas Homer-Dixon

“None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.”

Firsts Kind Enough Lying Song Turns Nations Love Is Secret Cry India Singers First Love

Book:Shantaram: A Novel

Source: Shantaram: A Novel

“Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.”

Ifs Men May Enough Turns Women Extraordinary Bounds Sake Violent Reputation Vanity Merit Sparks Modesty Composition Propriety Scruples Gallantry Coquette

Author:William Hazlitt

“The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.”

Mean Enough Running Past Turns Waiting Wonder Worry Rocks Missing Seasons Distance Likes Pushing Horizon Fades Brushes Moses Pondering Rushing Advent

Author:Jan L. Richardson

“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

“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

“Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.”

People Ifs Humans Ideas Enough Law Turns Evil Clear Modern Human Nature Opposites Ultimate Complicated Uncertainty Cooperation

Book:The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America

“Before seeing Truffaut 's Small Change, I was afraid it was going to be one of those simple, natural films about childhood which I generally try to avoid I'm just not good enough to go to them. But this series of sketches on the general theme of the resilience of children turns out to be that rarity a poetic comedy that's really funny.”

Trying Children Enough Film Turns Natural Simple Comedy Seeing Childhood Series Resilience Theme Poetic Good Enough Not Good Enough Rarity Small Changes

Book:When the lights go down

Source: When the lights go down

“If you annoy the Hog-nosed Snake enough, he will roll over on his back and play dead. If you turn him right-side up, he will roll over to prove that he is dead... While he is playing dead, you can go straight up to him and step on his head or smash him with a big club.”

Ifs Enough Play Bigs Turns Sides Steps Prove Clubs Annoying Snakes Hog Straight Up Footnotes

Author:Will Cuppy

“Nature is more subtle, more deeply intertwined and more strangely integrated than any of our pictures of her than any of our errors. It is not merely that our pictures are not full enough; each of our pictures in the end turns out to be so basically mistaken that the marvel is that it worked at all.”

Ends Enough Turns Errors Subtle Mistaken Integrated Intertwined

Book:Science and Human Values

Source: Science and Human Values

“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.”

Ifs Men Enough Care Turns Numbers Company Effects Safe Safety Profession Significant Discrimination Employers Hiring Harassment Lawsuit Quota Large Companies Significant Numbers

Author:Warren Farrell

“Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out.”

Way Stills Matter Enough Helping Today Turns Economic Land Products Battle Losing Holes Farmers American Family

Author:Willie Nelson

“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.”

Knows World Giving Feels Persons Enough Moving Turns Strong Force Felt Gone Knowing Share Shapes Connections Give Me Survived Not Alone Strong Enough

Author:Gregory Orr

“A man once said that the pinnacle of success Is when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble enough idea, I suppose How on earth he does this, heaven only knows I know I need a lot more of all three of those Before I ever have the nerve to turn up my nose At any money, compliments, and publicity.”

Knows Men Needs Doe Said Ideas Enough Earth Turns Three Lost Heaven Interest Noble Noses Nerves Compliment Publicity Pinnacle

Author:Todd Snider

“Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.”

“But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the bye, will you, or can you tell me, my dear Cunningham, why a religioso turn of mind has always a tendency to narrow and illiberalise the heart?”

Mind Heart Enough Turns Religious Atheism Dear Positive Atheism Tendencies Nonsense Bye Nonsensical Cunninghams

Book:Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose

Source: Rhymer Rab: an anthology of poems and prose

“A Marathon is not about running, it is about salvation. We spend so much of our lives doubting ourselves, thinking we're not good enough, not strong enough, not made of the right stuff. The Marathon is an opportunity for redemption. "Opportunity," because the outcome is uncertain. "Opportunity," because it is up to you, and only you, to make it happen; only you can turn your farfetched dream into a reality.”

“It is not enough for the Church to be engaged with the State in healing social ills, though this is important at times. But when the world can turn around and see a group of God's people exhibiting substantial healing in the area of human relationships in their present life, then the world will take notice. Each group of Christians is, as it were, a pilot plant, showing that something can be done in the present situation, if only we begin in the right way.”

“A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.”

Enough Turns Fun Sound Code Parks Stomach Amusement Zombie Violation Amusement Parks

Author:Jim C. Hines

“I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!”

People Way Sometimes Enough Problem Turns Built Madness Anger Safety Illness Like Me These Days Heat Tension Destructive Milk Traits Fierce Soup Another Way Tantrums Unbalanced Valve

Author:May Sarton

“Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?”

I Can Done Enough Light Night Turns Asks Sleep Every Night

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. It turns problems into gifts, failures into successes, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. It can turn an existence into a real life, and disconnected situations into important and beneficial lessons. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Gratitude makes things right.”

Source: Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers

“The majority of human beings do not turn to God because they have not enough happiness but because happiness is not enough.”

Humans Enough God Turns Human Beings Majority Turn To God

Book:Three Ways Home

Source: Three Ways Home

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory'.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.”

Enough Lasts Turns Strong Given Century Return Stones Meals Biology Cliffs Enough Time Colony Moss Dine Boulders Gravel Topsoil

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.”

Enough Turns Individual Social Social Change

Book:Powers of the weak

Source: Powers of the weak

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.”

People World Trying Believe Wells Ends Enough Bigs Turns I Believe Perfect Powerful Struggle Achieve Scene Pure Mass Tests Killing Don't Believe Purity Live Well A Perfect World Cambodia

Author:Margaret Atwood

“The genocide will not necessarily take the form of war, or death camps. Most likely it will take the form of ecocide, in which landscapes are devastated and the populations that live there slowly starve or turn upon each other savagely because there isn't enough food or water to go around.”

War Enough Form Turns Water Population Landscape Camps Genocide Devastated Death Camps

Author:Arundhati Roy

“Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.”

Ifs Enough Turns Waiting Ocean Bird Breaths Tides

Author:M.C. Beaton

“As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power.”

Giving Mind Littles Enough Light Turns Glory Landscape Peculiar Sublime Glances Lingering Power Of Thought

Author:James Vila Blake

“I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.”

Way Enough Turns Careers Let Me Working It

Author:Ed Asner

“Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read. The Everleigh story closely follows the turns of American history like a little sister. I can't recommend this book loudly enough.”

Littles I Can Book Enough Stories Turns Sin Cities Lessons American History Biographies Little Sister Second City

Author:Darin Strauss

“In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.”

Enough Turns Culture Trade Structure Unstable Complication Tripods

Author:Frank Herbert

“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”

People Ifs Want Needs Enough Use Kids Turns Given Chance Ability Decision Support Drink Drug Preacher Talk To Me Enough Love Soapbox

Author:Nikki Sixx

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to raise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves”

Source: The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli

“When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.”

Enough Turns Century Goes On One Day Tradition

Author:Chinua Achebe

“Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.”

Should Enough Turns Trouble Dating Attractive Spouse

Author:Albert Brooks