Turneck Quotes & Sayings

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. — Erik Larson

So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that. — Theresa May

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens. — Alex Steffen

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years. — Bobby Vinton

In God we trust, everybody else bring data to the table. — Narayan

Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind. — George Croly

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen accidents, meetings and material assistance that no one could have dreamed would come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. - Goethe, by attribution — Gregory Maguire

Is it true that we can count the moments in which something really happens in our lives? Do we notice it right away, or only in hindsight? — Jan-Philipp Sendker

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues. — David Rumelhart

I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do. I had always meant to direct, and for a variety of reasons that are hard to explain, I never did. I produced many things - there'll be people who tell you I directed through them - and of course I wrote. It took a divorce, a move back to New York and a kind of "now I can do anything" to say, "I really want to do this." — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

So here are our truisms about truth:
Truth is objective.
Truth is good.
Truth is a worthy goal of inquiry.
Truth is worth caring about for its own sake. — Michael P. Lynch

The system has already anticipated the freedom seeking mechanism in humans. — Bryant McGill

And memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different. — Dana Gioia

And he ate up all her vision, as he had done the first day she saw him so long ago. — Lawren Leo