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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Bible

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul.Men must not turn bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Francis Bacon

It is probably prudent to wait and delay. At some point this year the market will turn around.

Jeffrey Kagan

You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.

William Hogarth

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Charlotte Whitton

Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit

Ramana Maharshi

Turn your scars into stars.

Robert H. Schuller

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

A good fortune may forbode a bad luck, which may in turn disguise a good fortune.

Chinese Proverb

I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the oil is threatened, then you turn on the television and they tell you where the country is, what the language is, how to pronounce the names of the leaders, what the religion is all about, and maybe you can cut out recipes in the newspaper of Persian dishes.

Don Delillo

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

Abu Bakr

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Lord Chesterfield

The function of government ought to be: make sure you have good water to drink, somebody picking up the garbage, good roads to drive on, enough electricity to turn your light bulbs and your record player on, and whatever smaller amounts of regulatory assistance is necessary to make this society work

Frank Zappa