Famous quotes containing the word turn:
“Britain is mighty wobbly. It started late, because it dawdled, appeased, waited for something to turn up.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (19081973)
“He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“I also heard the whooping of the ice in the pond, my great bed-fellow in that part of Concord, as if it were restless in its bed and would fain turn over, were troubled with flatulency and bad dreams; or I was waked by the cracking of the ground by the frost, as if some one had driven a team against my door, and in the morning would find a crack in the earth a quarter of a mile long and a third of an inch wide.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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