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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

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

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

When I exhale, I just turn right into Louie Anderson.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.