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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran

The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 a.m.
Charles Pierce

The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.
Atom Egoyan

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
Eric Hoffer

The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can't get it back; it's bald in the back of the head and never turns around.
Francois Rabelais

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
Nigel Kneale

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
Epictetus

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
David Starr Jordan

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
Daniel Ellsberg

There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image.
Atom Egoyan

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard

Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
Barbara Ann Scott

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
Sarah Fielding