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“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”

People Thinking Way Persons Book Use Would Be Hate Turns Reading Lost Voice Internet I Hate Shy Compelling Site

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. … The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.”

Way Giving Use Past Spiritual Spirit Turns Mistake Essence Treats Angry Symbols Our Past Negation Connotation Wholesale

Author:John Cowper Powys

“I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.”

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Book:Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

“The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.”

States Character Use Political Order Turns Opportunity Red Crisis Rainbow Louisiana Opportunity To Change

Author:Jesse Jackson

“We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.”

“There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful.”

Ifs Men Should Book Use Remember Turns Evil Social Practice Every Man Newspapers Magazines Speakers Truthful Platforms Exposure Relentless Social Life Hail Severity Benefactors

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

People Thinking Persons Real Hard Use Certain Turns Stuff Events Clothes Making Money Real Friends

Author:Sophie Monk

“Whenever the law gets its hands on you, those who use the law to their own advantage will also turn it against you. Don't put your trust in the laws of men, Alvin. They were designed by strong men to improve their power over weaker ones.”

Men Use Hands Law Turns Strong Advantage Strong Man

Book:Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive. When I was younger, based was a negative term that meant like dopehead, or basehead. People used to make fun of me. They was like, "You're based." They'd use it as a negative. And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, "Yeah, I'm based." I made it mine. I embedded it in my head. Based is positive.”

People Thinking Mean Made Use Used Turns Fun Term Mines Like You Negative Yeah Scared Made It Being Yourself Being Positive Being Afraid Embedded Being Scared

Author:Lil B

“The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.”

Doe Ends Use Feelings Law Used Turns Liberty Police Method Criminals Illegal Rooted Confession Inherent Involuntary Convicts Abhorrence

Author:Earl Warren

“Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is trying to solve, and thinking to encompass his adversary, merely keeps prowling interminably around himself, the heroic nature will throw itself into the heart of the danger to turn it to its own use, just as captured artillery is turned about and aimed at the backs of the fleeing enemy.”

Thinking Men Trying Heart Use Problem Turns Enemy Danger Weak Simplicity Complicated Solve Heroic Adversaries Captured Fleeing Shattering Imposter Artillery Weak Man Prowling

Author:Georges Bernanos

“The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.”

Thinking Should Book Use Turns Deals Cutting Tree Industry Amount Paper Impact Distance Marketing Enormous Traditional Electricity Ecological Retail

Author:William Gibson

“Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work they undertake, succeed, and, in the average of cases, are advanced in proportion to their efficiency; while the incompetent, society soon finds out, ceases to employ, forces to try something easier, and eventually turns to use.”

Trying Kind Use Turns Courses Force Natural Cases Citizens Easier Succeed Function Average Cease Proportion Efficiency Competent Incompetent

Book:Essays--scientific, political and speculative

Source: Essays--scientific, political and speculative

“They use those monitors now, and sometimes you'll be doing a shot and then suddenly you see yourself on one of those monitors, and I always say turn the monitor round, I don't want to see myself on the monitor. I never see myself 'til the movie's finished.”

Want Sometimes Use Turns Shots Rounds Finished

Author:Michael Caine

“Atlantic reckoned we should use a top Yank producer and appointed one Eddie Kramer to the post. It turns out the guy was full of bullshit and couldn't produce a healthy fart.”

Should Use Guy Turns Produce Healthy Producers Posts Bullshit Fart Kramer

Author:Bon Scott

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.”

People Use Turns Evil Cameras Plant Phones Nuclear Good People Bad People Nuclear Power Power Plants

Author:Philippe Kahn

“With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?”

Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel

“If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.”

Ifs Want Helping Use Turns Special Higher Gains Merit Consideration Sincere Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation: greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness. If the world be promiscuously described, I cannot see of what use it can be to read the account; or why it may not be as safe to turn the eye immediately upon mankind, as upon a mirror which shows all that presents itself without discrimination.”

Ifs World Writing May Art Stills Use Shows Eye Care Turns Passion Greater Mankind Safe Accounts Mirrors Discrimination Imitation Wickedness Representing

Book:Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Source: Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

“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.”

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Author:Aaron Eckhart

“I turn the tables and challenge our people, our scouts, and they respond. We had a meeting with our scouts this week and told them [we] will use and value their opinions. That perks them up.”

People Use Values Turns Challenges Opinion Week Tables Meetings Perks

Author:Doug Melvin

“The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.”

Should Made Use Turns Victim Injustice Tyrants Heed Chariots Carrion

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“It turns out I will buy any yarn, even yarn I will never use, if the store discounts it by more than 50 percent.”

Ifs Use Turns Percent Stores Shopping Knitting Discounts Yarn

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.”

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“Prayer that works is prayer that makes a difference, contemplation that turns into action, on behalf of peace and justice in a troubled and unjust world system. Prayer is energy, the energy of love and transformative power. It is given to us to use for the good of all creation. In prayer God gives us the fuel of life, and asks us to live it.”

World Giving Use Action Turns Asks Energy Given Differences Justice Prayer Christianity Creation Contemplation Fuel Making A Difference Unjust Behalf Peace And Justice

Author:Margaret Silf

“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

“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.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Mean Doe Facts Use Jobs Turns Common Cases Technique Alternatives Revolutionary Classic Convince Sincere Destroying Traps Offensive Oppressed Blueprints

Author:Shulamith Firestone

“This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give to the reader; and in doing so they turn language against its own project of conceptual division, and use it to heal itself - and in the process - paradoxically - to articulate new concepts that it can't yet accommodate.”

Giving Use Poetry Turns Reading Literature Language Process Practice Poet Reader Projects Concepts Capacity Heal Division Accommodate Heal Itself

Author:Don Paterson

“A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.”

Ifs Thinking Use Turns One Thing Materials Reader Someday Wiser

Book:Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

Source: Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade

“Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.”

World Looks Reason Use Able Earth Turns Strong Chance Bases Favors Unshakable

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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 Elements of Prayer|Its ground: God, by whose goodness it springeth in us. |Its use: to turn our will to His will. |Its end: to be made one with Him and like to Him in all things.”

Made Ends Use Turns Prayer Goodness Elements All Things

Author:Julian of Norwich

“I know she's just trying to make things nice, so I do my part. Now, when I get up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night, I turn on the light. I used to just go by sonar: just keep peeing 'til you hear water.”

Knows Trying Use Humor Light Funny Used Night Turns Water Nice Middle Dating Get Up Bathroom Turn-on Middle Of The Night Funny Dating

Author:Adam Ferrara

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