#turn

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

#along #everything #going #law #moves

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad. ↗

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

#get #i #mad #much #turn

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

#being #decided #down #had #numerous

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

#back #binds #church #city #contradictions

When the devil grows old he turns hermit. ↗

— Ludovico Ariosto

#grows #hermit #old #turns

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s? ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#generous #how #less #politics #possible

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation. ↗

— George P. Baker

#come #dramatists #generation #into #judging

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. ↗

— William Barclay

#bear #endurance #glory #hard #hard thing

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful vanities and diversions were my greatest pleasure. ↗

— John Woolman

#diversions #flock #going #greatest #greatest pleasure

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.' ↗

— James Purefoy

#british #british actors #cut #good #large