#urns

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american revolution #ancestors #army #continental #fought

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#created #god #hates #image #out

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#bound #felt #i #make #more

The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean. ↗

— Ovid

#burns #clean #lamp #oil #wick

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#him #left #over #papers #room

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#believe #essence #first #make #make believe

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#expensive #film #least #most #our time

We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do. ↗

— James Levine

#employees #employers #found #issue #just

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#exercised #instrument #man #men #nature

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#make #nowadays #phrase #three #turns