#turns

Some people aren't touchy-feely, but I grew up in a family where you'd walk into the family room and there'd be five people on the couch with an arm here, an arm there, everyone scratching and taking turns. ↗

— Chris O'Donnell

#couch #everyone #family #five #grew

If a book I've committed myself to review turns out to be 'disappointing' I make an effort to present it objectively to the reader, including a good number of excerpts from the text, so that the reader might form his or her own opinion independent of my own. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#committed #disappointing #effort #form #good

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid. ↗

— Will Oldham

#fierce #had #i #i can #kid

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#god #how #i #into #marvel

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#back #either #happens #head-on #him

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#after #chance #continue #death #delighted

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#bad fortune #bows #down #earth #faces

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#anything #being #cannot #conceive #dissolved

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. ↗

— Matthew Fox

#act #dualism #healing #heals #here

Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#enormous #fundamental #our #returns #voting