#turns

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #turns




If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own.


Joyce Carol Oates


#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.


Will Oldham


#fierce #had #i #i can #kid

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.


Martha Reeves


#god #how #i #into #marvel

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.


Gene Roddenberry


#back #either #happens #head-on #him

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.


Eliot Spitzer


#out #politics #seen #sometimes #think

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.


Joseph Stiglitz


#difficulty #early #economics #getting #i

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!


Billy Sunday


#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

You walk into any supermarket or any shopping mall and ask the public what they are worried about. Not one of them will tell you they are worried about 12 years of Mitt Romney's tax returns.


John Sununu


#any #ask #into #mall #mitt

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.


John Sununu


#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors