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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
Chinua Achebe
Day
Strength
You
Enough
One Day
Tradition
Go
Off
Just
Centuries
Turn
I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire Danes
Alone
Own
Active
Think
Imagination
Scared
My Own
Devices
Because
Huge
Left
Just
Being
Being Alone
Turn
Really
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
Eddie Vedder
Day
News
Every Day
Sadness
Every
Our
Our Planet
Unbearable
About
Horrific
Ongoing
More
Feel
Heads
Because
Becomes
Becoming
Stories
Conflicts
Apathy
Turn
Planet
Page
Helpless
Dozen
Level
In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
Edith Stein
God
Memory
Will
Must
Embrace
Spirit
Order
Hold
Eternal
Loving
Turn
Keep
Image
There are two different things: there's grilling, and there's barbecue. Grilling is when people say, 'We're going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.' Barbecue is going low and slow.
Guy Fieri
People
Slow
Burger
Say
People Say
Steak
Hot
Make
Up
Chicken
Heat
Going
Different
Grilling
Low
Barbecue
Turn
Really
Cook
Different Things
Things
Two
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
Jules Renard
Man
Dinner
Free
Giving
Down
Only
Invitation
Excuse
Without
Turn
Really
Who
Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.
Julia Gillard
Education
Future
Innovation
People
Our
Our People
Rely
Turn
Skills
Productivity
Growth
Competitiveness
An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.
Letitia Baldrige
Best
Cooking
Dinner
Wine
Table
Someone
Excellent
Simplest
Attempt
Candles
Romantic
Turn
Event
Flowers
Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.
Malcolm X
Man
Black
White
Other
Unless
Someone
Nobody
Cheek
America
Turn
Should
Teach
Teaching
When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down.
Michelle Obama
You
Yourself
Phones
World
Space
Social Media
Down
Those
Some
Give
Know
Got
Off
Times
Quiet
Just
Which
Social
Turn
Turn-Off
Means
Media
Set
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Orison Swett Marden
Good
Nature
Power
Reputation
Disposition
Others
Kind
Charitable
Unselfish
Perfume
Ready
Than
Any
Turn
Your
Sweeter
Roses
We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.
Paul Ryan
People
Safety
Complacency
Net
Safety Net
Hammock
Dependence
Want
Turn
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
Politics
You
Will
Turn
Turn-On
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard Bach
You
Before
Possible
Futures
Learn
Anything
Them
Turn
Certain
Away
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.
Saint Ambrose
Love
Art
God
Alone
Me
Thoughts
Soul
Protection
Mercy
Guard
Speed
Extremity
Thou
Thou Art
Restrain
Take
Sin
Thy
Nevertheless
Majesty
Heal
Because
Nor
Quickly
Lips
Did
May
Refuge
Canst
Thee
Turn
Body
Many
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Samora Machel
History
Struggle
Generation
Will
Important
Build
Revolution
Society
Our
Our Generation
Record
Mentality
New
Armed
Most
Principal
Understand
How
Contribution
Done
Essential
The Most Important
Turn
Realized
Create
Things
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
Steven Pressfield
Work
Change
Will
Power
Sit
Down
Our
Our Lives
Destiny
Tables
Never
Never Forget
Alter
Without
Very
Forget
Turn
Moment
Lives
Second
Resistance
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
Tariq Ramadan
Eyes
Ego
Enemies
Challenge
Looking
Own
Others
Our
Ourselves
See
Potential
Take
Outside
Self
Glance
Instead
Counting
Inward
Greatest
Greatest Challenge
Turn
Us
Measure
Fasting
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
Thomas Huxley
Work
Nature
Man
Better
Kind
Indication
Had
He
Part
Head
She
Him
Without
Stimulants
Brain
Hand
Did
Any
Cannot
Mean
Turn
Worker
It is true that power corrupts. The hope at the polling stations and the actions of the elected representatives, unfortunately, often turn to be opposite. The power of ballot turns into the power of wallet. Some law-makers become law-breakers.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Hope
Power Corrupts
Corrupts
Power
Become
Stations
Some
True
Opposite
Ballot
Wallet
Often
Representatives
Polling
Unfortunately
Turn
Elected
Turns
Actions
Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to suggest that he might capriciously and arbitrarily violate them in order to walk on water, or turn water into wine as a cheap party trick at a wedding?
Richard Dawkins
God
You
Physics
Water
Walk
Wine
Party
Believe
Trick
Would
Invented
Laws
Wedding
Cheap
He
Him
Insult
Order
Them
Might
Turn
Even
Creator
Violate
Suggest
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
You
Humor
Laughter
Poverty
Find
Through
Around
Survive
Situations
Anything
Turn
Painful
Even
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
Work
You
Man
World
Busy
Out
Trying
Turn
Working
Busy Working
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.
Adriana Trigiani
Life
You
World
Mother
Gone
Changes
Worries
About
Seems
Unsafe
No-One
Like
She
Forever
Anymore
Happen
Cannot
Turn
Your
Her
Things
I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
Al Sharpton
You
Will
Seen
Corner
Enough
Sun
Know
Shining
Going
Just
Turn
Keep
Things
People try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out, and what we did is that we changed who turns out. And that changes the whole electorate.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
People
Try
Changed
Changes
Out
Most
Likely
Identify
Person
Did
Turn
Turns
Electorate
Who
Whole
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