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Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about wisdom

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for...

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

Quote by Aristotel about philosophy, wish, things

Your hub screws are always turned off when you need them...

Your hub screws are always turned off when you need them to be turned to 4X4.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about cars, need

I Should Say Snow the green turned to black the black to white I should say snow but the word is like blood: doesn't show unless there is a wound a wound in the middle of the silence I should say in the middle of the heart but the...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry, magic, heart, blood, silence, word, music

If you love me If you love me, by spells of wishing I will turn all the stars of heaven in tears of joy and lunatic kisses. If you hate me, I will turn all your thoughts of hating in fire boomerangs which wil burn your heart...

Quote by Cristian Petru Balan about poetry, celebrity, stars, kiss, tears, joy, hate, love, fire, fire brigade

To turn a moron into a scholar, one needs great faith; to...

To turn a moron into a scholar, one needs great faith; to turn a scholar into a moron, disillusion suffices...

Quote by Maria Pal about attitude, faith

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Quote by Thomas Fuller about good luck, wealth, chance, good, man

Abused patience turns to fury.

Abused patience turns to fury.

Quote by Thomas Fuller about feelings, patience

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought...

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you don't have it and thought of other things if you did.

Quote by James Baldwin about money, thinking, sex, nothing, things

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, use

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming...

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about chance

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about society, man

The man who thus looks up is becoming worthy to be looked...

The man who thus looks up is becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn, and, to this extent, qualifying for leadership.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about leadership, man

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're...

Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.

Quote by Richard Bach

A lot of the homelands turned out to be land where no water was readily available, no roads, no amenities. So you had your ceded lands of a couple million acres, and y Hawaiian homesteads of a couple hundred thousand acres.

Quote by Neil Abercrombie about couple, water

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about press, law, public, rightness

In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned...

In the '70s, you were legally underage until you turned 21. And when you're 16, 21 seems so far away!

Quote by Victoria Abril

When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming...

When I was 6, I held on to my mother's skirt, screaming that I wanted to be a dancer. She enrolled me in an academy in Madrid when I turned 8.

Quote by Victoria Abril about mother

I've always turned to the media because one thing people...

I've always turned to the media because one thing people like that fear is exposure.

Quote by Kathy Acker about fear, things, people

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, old, olderness, people

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