Best turns & sides Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In these home affairs things I think occasionally it's the duty of politicians on both sides to turn round to the tabloids and right-wing newspapers and say 'you have your facts wrong and you're whipping up facts which are inaccurate”

Thinking Facts Home Turns Sides Duty Politician Wings Rounds Affair Newspapers Both Sides Right Wing Tabloids Whipping

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“Opposition to the truth is inevitable, especially if it takes the form of a new idea, but the degree of resistance can be diminished- by giving thought not only to the aim but to the method of approach. Avoid a frontal attack on a long established position; instead, seek to turn it by flank movement, so that a more penetrable side is exposed to the thrust of truth. But, in any such indirect approach, take care not to diverge from the truth- for nothing is more fatal to its real advancement than to lapse into untruth.”

Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?

“I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the centre and cuts off the lateral vision, which lies unfocused. Now I found that I could turn my eye to the adjacent field of vision, seeing another focus, an extension which I added to the original. Instead of stopping at two focuses, I looked further to the side, adding another and yet another.”

World Made Two Eye Lying Turns Found Sides Vision Saws Focus Cutting Seeing Fronts Fields Originals Lays Centre Extensions Stopping

Author:Joseph Plaskett

“Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountain-side with its thick-ribbed ice.”

Remember Turns Sides Christ Grace Mountain Ice Grieving Sunshine Thick His Love Unbelief Pleading Glaciers Sullen Unresponsive

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“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

“Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Some drivers have already got out of their cars, prepared to push the stranded vehicle to a spot where it will not hold up the traffic, they beat furiously on the closed windows, the man inside turns his head in their direction, first to one side then to the other, he is clearly shouting something, to judge by the movements of his mouth he appears to be repeating some words, no one word but three, as turns out to be the case when someone finally manages to open the door, I am blind.”

Men Firsts Turns Three Sides Cases Doors Car Movement He Man Judging Beats Mouths Window Blind Prepared Manage Spots Drivers Vehicle Traffic One Word Shouting Stranded

Author:Jose Saramago

“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

“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”

“Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, On the lake below thy gentle eyes; The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.”

Eye Lying Turns Sides Water Dark Praying Flow Silent Clouds Heavy Snow Gentle Lakes Over It Gray Frozen I Pray Mist Flakes Wavering Hang Over

Author:William C. Bryant

“God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?”

Reason God Turns Games Sides Infinite Distance Chaos Tails God Exists Incline Extremity Being Played Wagers Heads Or Tails

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.”

Life Turns Sides Visible Thread Tapestry

Author:Madame de Stael

“The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light.”

Light Turns Sides Consciousness Darkness Effects Negativity Expanding Turn-on Side Effects

Author:David Lynch

“There is no door at which the hand of woman has knocked for admission into a new field of toil but there have been found on the other side the hands of strong and generous men eager to turn it for her, almost before she knocks.”

Men Has Beens Hands Turns Found Strong Sides Doors Fields Generous Toil Admission Generous Man

Book:Woman and Labor

Source: Woman and Labor

“The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.”

Men World Humans Wells Children Age Turns Sides Wise Universal Instinct Simplicity Human Life Good Man Truest Containing Bad Man Affirming Inquisitive

Book:Pierre or The Ambiguities

Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities

“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.”

People Needs Looks May Long Two Ends Running Turns Sides Realizing Audience Metaphor Long Runs Two Sides

Author:Deborah Tannen

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