#turned

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#advantage #build #follow #govern #hand

For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#day #every #every day #exactly #hoped

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#arms #disarmed #knowledge #men #returned

Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#blocked #home #hours #into #matter

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#get #had #i #into #like

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur. ↗

— William Bartram

#attention #climates #different #distinctions #explore

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#descended #freud #head #hero #him

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#american #any #channel #chicken #comes

I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes. ↗

— Larry Hovis

#from time to time #get #going #grapes #i

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

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