Best turns & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.”

“As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.”

World God Faces Turns Mercy Property Rounds Glasses Invisible Visible Hung Chamber Bounty

Book:CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

Source: CXLV Espository Sermons Upon the Whole 17th Chapter of the Gospel According to St. John: Or, Christ's Prayer Before His Passion Explicated and Both Practically and Polemically Improved

“As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.”

Knows Men Different Age Faces Turns Names Watches Study Patterns Wheels Wheel Of Time Many Faces Different Faces

Book:The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'

“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

“Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.”

Mind Self Body Light Faces Turns Steps Originals Manifest Inward Mind And Body

Author:Dogen

“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.”

Faces Turns Half Wife Doors Dinner My Wife Broke Flats Plates Like Something Cruise Cabins Spaghetti Keystones

Author:Art Donovan

“Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.”

Ifs Knows Matter Whole Faces Turns Missing Ignorance Creatures Praise Dislike Creeds Confined Quran Whole Truth Omniscient

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.”

Giving Home Hands Today Faces Turns Tomorrow Future Invites Only Love

Author:Phil Jackson

“It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most Mighty Branch (Abdu'l-Baha). Thus have We graciously revealed unto you our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful.”

Book Faces Turns Powerful Objects Holy Ocean Roots Sacred Ancient Branches Revelations Your Face Verses Gracious Kindred Incumbents Holy Books Baha

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory: this is for you, you, you. These are for you-gifts-these are for you-grace-these are for you-God, so count the ways He loves, a thousand, more, never stop, that when you wake in the morning you can't help turn humbly to the east, unfold your hand to the heavens, and though you tremble and though you wonder, though the world is ugly, it is beautiful, and you can slow and you can trust and you can receive each moment as grace.”

World Way Moments Helping Hands Earth Beautiful Faces Turns Heaven Stars Wonder Morning Grace Feet Thousand Glory Rain Ugly East Over You Your Face Spinning Brazen

Author:Ann Voskamp

“The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.”

Mind Humans May Art Faces Turns Race One Day Eternal Losing Noble Human Race Merit Disgrace Pacifism

Author:Piet Pieterszoon Hein

“In the face of the idea that truth might afford the opposite of satisfaction and turn out to be completely shocking to humanity at any given historical moment, ... the fathers of pragmatism made the satisfaction of the subject the criterion of truth. For such a doctrine there is no possibility of rejecting or even criticizing any species of belief that is enjoyed by its adherents.”

Source: Eclipse of Reason

“When you're on the street, and, as you're walking along, a woman turns the corner going away from you, and for an instant you have a glimpse of the side of her face, of the gesture of her shoulder, the shape of her body, and you are committed... You are in love for an instant, or your senses are rocked for an instant. That person then disappears and is lost to you forever.”

Persons Body Faces Turns Lost Sides Forever Streets Walking Shapes Committed Corners Disappear Senses Shoulders Instant Going Away Gestures Glimpse Away From You

Author:Joel Meyerowitz

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

Thinking I Can Two Important Book Done Character Use Care Today Film Faces Guy Turns Interesting Technology Scene Very Good Passionate Comic Comic Book Good Guy Harvey

Author:Aaron Eckhart

“The process is learning to turn your back on everything and everyone and face that immensity. And only after you've done that can you then turn around and face the world again with new, clear eyes.”

World Done Eye Faces Turns Process Clear Mysticism Immensity Clear Eyes

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.”

Needs Stills Faces Turns Fire Events Materials Higher Circumstances Aim Obstacles Pursue Fuel Thrown Inward Lamps Consumed

Book:Meditations: A New Translation

Source: Meditations: A New Translation

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.”

People Feels I Can Action Faces Turns Girl Fronts Scene Red Brave Shy

Author:Jet Li

“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.”

Thinking Feels Kind Littles Self Faces Turns Bits Worst Little Bit Conscious Cameras Vulnerable Vulnerability Self Conscious

Author:Jason Mraz

“When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.”

Long Faces Turns Sun Thousand West Golden Gates Palaces Patches Sunflower Gaudy

Book:Ombria in Shadow

Source: Ombria in Shadow

“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?”