#turns

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dislike #good-turns #injury #kindness #like

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#human #into #man #most #obstacles

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#government #nothing #oppressive #out #turns

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#behavior #cease #ceases #individual #intelligent

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach. ↗

— Demosthenes

#good #him #like #man #much

Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#matters #moral #moral issues #out #taste

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#belt #cranking #desk #engine #gears

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#i #like #loss #much #out

Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#hard #hundred #look #mathematics #out

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. ↗

— George Will

#between #choice #eligible #equally #food