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Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

I think the lottery changed everything for us. Once we got Sidney, it helped us turn this franchise around overnight.

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

I've been trying to really live in the moment because I will never get this part of it back. As soon as the movie comes out, everyone will turn it into what they believe it is, so I've really been trying to appreciate every minute of now. Because I know what's coming.