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“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

“God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.”

People Want May Spiritual Turns Perfect Contemplation

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, "Wow, you look much better now."”

People Looks Turns Youth Shapes Wow Better Now

Author:Jack Black

“It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around.”

People Trying Bigs Turns Mistake Mislead Big Mistake

Author:Warren Buffett

“I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.”

People Government Eye Turns Names Crime Hero Goodness Conscience Blind Righteous Unwilling Snowden Blind Eyes Whistleblowers Bradley Manning

Author:Tom Morello

“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

“The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.”

People Book Moving Turns Challenges Deals Television Tvs Pages Flow Tendencies Description Accuracy Precision

Author:Brian Greene

“The pleasures of intimacy in friendship depend far more on external circumstances than people of a sentimental turn of mind are willing to concede; and when constant companionship ceases to suit the convenience of both parties, the chances are that it will be dropped on the first favourable opportunity.”

Source: Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale)

“It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.”

People Giving Ends Facts Turns Social Party Balls Dinner Invites Invitations Back And Forth Social Life Facts Of Life You Again Inviting Dinner Party Ping Ping Pong

Author:Laurie Colwin

“Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.”

People Turns Prejudice Scrutiny

Author:Margaret Halsey

“To determine whether or not you have the ingredients to be charismatic, answer the following questions: What are your real feelings about who you are? What do you believe in? Do you have goals or a mission in life? Do you project optimism? Do others turn to you for leadership? Noncharismatic people spend their lives auditioning for others and hoping they'll be accepted. Charismatic people don't doubt their ability to add value to a situation, so they move forward with their mission.”

Source: You Are the Message: Getting What You Want by Being Who You Are

“If someone is being unkind or petty or jealous or distant or weird, you don't have to take it in. You don't have to turn it into a big psychodrama about your worth. That behavior so often is not even about you. Don't own other people's crap.”

People Ifs Bigs Turns Behavior Jealousy Jealous Crap Petty Often Is Unkind

Book:Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

Source: Brave Enough: A Mini Instruction Manual for the Soul

“It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.”

People Believe Littles Different Hard Might Turns Pieces Air Thousand Prison Stale Fresh Air Hard To Believe

Book:The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love

Source: The Sister Souljah Collection #1: The Coldest Winter Ever; Midnight, A Gangster Love Story; and Midnight and the Meaning of Love

“Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into an hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!”

People Knows Heart Has Beens Done Christian Turns Church Poor Lord Late Built Army Productions Believer Hospitals Alas Lambs Godliness

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.”

People Life Trying Turns Born Sea Wind Casts Blow Boat Rhythm Tides Harbors

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“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

“My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.”

People Turns Mom Green My Mom Cream Pie Delicious Delicacy Whipped Cream

Author:Bobby Moynihan

“I'm looking at a tax process that will allow people to keep more of their money because we know what happens when job creators get to keep more of their money than they're - they have the confidence to go out and spend that money to create jobs that in turn create wealth.”

People Knows Happens Jobs Turns Process Wealth Taxes Creator Job Creators

Author:Rick Perry

“There is an exercise I teach at colleges: Get yourself a canvas and a bunch of acrylics and go into a very dimly lighted room. Dip a brush into one of the colors, slap it on the canvas, don't look, close your eyes, make a painting, don't look, turn the lights on and see what you've got. I think this releases people from the editor in their life that's always standing over their shoulder saying, "Oh, you don't have any talent; who do you think you are?"”

People Thinking Looks Light Eye Turns Rooms Teach Talent College Color Painting Exercise Standing Shoulders Bunch Release Editors Canvas Brushes Slap Dip

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I come back to the science that is in it to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and climate change. It's about science, science, science and science, innovation, as we rebuild America, create jobs, invest in our people and turn this economy around.”

People Jobs America Turns Economy Innovation Climate Climate Change Oil Dependence Foreign Oil

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.”

People Want Years Care Turns Community Taxes Income Clock Income Tax Small Communities

Author:Pete Seeger

“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

“Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.”

People Ifs Trying Turns Watches Cases Air Perceive Knives Slips Balloons Assassins

Author:Stephen Colbert

“When I was younger, I thought, 'Ok, I'm supposed to do this project because it'll help my career,' but that didn't work because I ended up doing movies that I worked really hard on but I didn't really like and they didn't turn out well, so it was like I lost double. Once I just started working with people and projects I believed in, everything changed and I suddenly had a career that I loved and that I was proud of.”

People Wells Hard Helping Turns Lost Careers Changed Proud Projects

Author:James Franco

“Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner.”

People Made Wanted Order Turns Sin Accepting Forgiving Satisfaction Sinner Repentance

Author:Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

“The Long Way HomeWhy is it when people feel they are losing each other they always leave each other?Why do people walk away from their house when all they have to do to get home is turn around?”

People Way Feels Long Home Turns House Walks Losing Long Way

Author:Merrit Malloy

“Any swagger is just defense. When youre reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

People Use Turns Dark Chance Growing Up Growing Fame Who You Are Size Corners Defense Armor Curls Swagger

Author:Peter Dinklage

“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”

“I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Ends Would Be Film Turns Actors Knowing Wonderful Particular Skills Projects Scripts Luxury Toms Cruise Great Film

Author:Jonny Lee Miller

“All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.”

People Ifs Knows Shows Turns Know How Comedy Yelling Improvising

Author:Albert Brooks

“We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.”

People Thinking Way Helping Turns Can Do Poverty Conflict Disease Slavery

Author:Alicia Keys

“I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.”

People World Feels Kind Persons Feelings Problem Turns Hurt Known Love Life Mississippi Misused Mistreated

Author:B. B. King

“The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.”

People Should Stories Christian Spirit Turns Hours Prayer Situation Five Minutes Holy Dawn Holy Spirit Five Minutes Revival Renaissance Reformation Gloom Darkest Hour

Author:Os Guinness

“People think, 'Oh, well how can 'The Hobbit,' which is one book, become three films?' But you can take one line from an appendice and it turns into a whole sequence.”

People Thinking Wells Book Whole Film Turns Three Lines Sequence One Line Oh Well

Author:Andy Serkis

“Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.”

People Turns Black Elements Achievement Highest Defined Black People American Society

Author:Jewell Jackson McCabe

“I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.”

People Earth Turns Despicable Turned Down

Author:Steven Bauer

“Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.”

People World Turns Class History Republican Ears Shame Embarrassed Purses Silk Readiness World Class Toady

Author:Norman Mailer

“I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.”

People Turns Opinion Guides Mentor

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“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

“A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"”

People Ifs Firsts Wells Turns Choices Sin Hell Holy Righteous Loving God Go To Hell

Author:Josh McDowell

“In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.”

People Thinking Should Believe Joy Turns Baby South Height Korea Rest Of Your Life Joy And Happiness South Korea

Author:Alice Walker

“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.”

People Sometimes Remember Turns Stuff Memories Happened Scene Details

Author:Rick Moody

“So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone.”

People World Heart Turns Realizing Situation Comfortable Painful Familiar

Author:Corey Taylor