“The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.” PeopleKnowsNeedsTurnsHouseLeftSpaceTalkingPhonesFollowingExcuseCellsInstructionCell PhoneGrandmaExcuse MePeople TalkingGpsGrandma's House Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.” NeedsDesireTurnsUniverseAbsolutesCertaintyAbsolute Certainty Author:Sonia
“The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like...everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him.” WantNeedsFeelsLittlesStillsHandsTurnsFeltSawsNeededExcitedTouchedWant HimTurn OffCalebI Need Him Author:Shelly Crane
“Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.” WayNeedsTurnsTechnologyFiguresMastersInternetLimitsPhonesServantEmailTurn OffAuthentic Happiness Author:Gretchen Rubin
“The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What's your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint, this does not mean he would use it: in most cases he is not sincere in wanting to know. In fact this is a common offensive, a technique to reflect revolutionary anger and turn it against itself. Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need know is that the present system is destroying them.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsMeanDoeFactsUseJobsTurnsCommonCasesTechniqueAlternativesRevolutionaryClassicConvinceSincereDestroyingTrapsOffensiveOppressedBlueprints Author:Shulamith Firestone
“Does it follow from: 'turn ye' that therefore you can turn? Does it follow from "'Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart' (Deut 6.5) that therefore you can love with all your heart? What do arguments of this kind prove, but the 'free-will' does not need the grace of God, but can do all things by its own power....But it does not follow from this that man is converted by his own power, nor do the words say so; they simply say: "if thou wilt turn,telling man what he should do. When he knows it, and sees that he cannot do it, he will ask whence he may find ability to do it..." 164” IfsKnowsMenNeedsShouldHeartKindMayDoeTurnsAsksCan DoAbilityLordGraceProveArgumentAll ThingsFree WillGrace Of God Author:Martin Luther
“We made this inexplicable turn into Iraq, where we've lost lives, money, honour and the coalition on [George] Bush's watch. Surely he's not suggesting that if the Democrats win, things can get worse. I mean, all we can do now is to look at our field policy and change the course. We need more diplomatic outreach toward Iran, Syria and Middle Eastern allies, and less bluster and less threats, and fewer troops.” IfsNeedsLooksMeanMadeTurnsCoursesWinningLostCan DoWatchesMiddlePolicyFieldsThreatDemocratIraqIranHonourAlliesFewerTroopsSyriaEasternCoalitionsSuggestingDiplomaticInexplicableOutreachBluster Author:Jesse Jackson
“We are organising our enemies into a formidable force, we are The US public has turned against the war, the Republicans and Democrats have turned against the war. And so when the American public turns against the war and the Congress turns against the war, it suggests that Americans feel we cannot win that war in those conditions. So the Iraqi Commission says, "Well, we can't win this war militarily, we need to reassess potential allies." There's Syria, there's Iran.” NeedsFeelsWellsWarTurnsWinningForceEnemyConditionsRepublicanDemocratCongressIranAlliesSyriaFormidableCan't Win Author:Jesse Jackson
“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.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsEnoughUseKidsTurnsGivenChanceAbilityDecisionSupportDrinkDrugPreacherTalk To MeEnough LoveSoapbox Author:Nikki Sixx
“It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.” NeedsArtSoulTurnsWaterFireWineSticksSweetnessArtworkTransubstantiation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.” NeedsSelfFactsGovernmentTurnsFreedomAcceptingWillingDutyAuthorityAbuseAffairSurrenderLocalsNeighborhoodRemedyPaymentCorrectionsTreasuryDischargeSelf-governmentSupervisionTribunalsBartering Author:Calvin Coolidge
“When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.” PeopleNeedsLooksMayLongTwoEndsRunningTurnsSidesRealizingAudienceMetaphorLong RunsTwo Sides Author:Deborah Tannen
“On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.” IfsKnowsNeedsMayJoyTurnsSocietyLandSourceDrinkTravelShipsBoardsAshamedAwkwardSixtyFlirtingGlovesSodaBrandy Book:John Caldigate: Trollope's Works Source: John Caldigate: Trollope's Works