#turn

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#currency #deed #deeds #deep #do

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#alive #fought #habit #habits #having

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government. ↗

— William H. Wharton

#civil #colonists #condition #conduct #cultivation

The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out. ↗

— Dan Wheldon

#championship #each #early #enough #entertainment

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#better #case #certainly #comes #different

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#amp #basement #did #enjoy #ever

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#forward #go #heaven #man #once

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#i #love #tears #time #turn

His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. ↗

— Emma Willard

#boarding #boarding school #conversation #daughter #expected

Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. ↗

— Simone Weil

#instrument #manufacture #more #still #teachers