turn quotes

Open not thine heart to every man, lest he requite thee with a shrewd turn.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 8:19.

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto.Love and delight are better teachers of the Art of Painting than compulsion is.

- Albrecht Du« r er
c.1512  On Painting. Quoted in William Martin Conway Literary Remains of  Albrecht Du«  rer (1889).

Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Ash Wednesday'.

There, I believed, lay the greatest secrets of the past yet preserved inour world of today.Ihad cometotheturn of the road; and for better or worse I chose the forest path. 319

- Percy Harrison Fawcett
  Of South  America. Collected in Brian Fawcett (ed) Exploration Fawcett (1953).

But we, how shall we turn to little things And listen to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams, Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

-Wilfred Wilson Gibson
  'Lament'.

To those who wait with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning. See Fry 340:25.

- Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness Thatcher
  Address to the Conservative Party Conference.

I who have cursed The drunken officer of British rule, how choose Between this Africa and the English tongue I love? Betray them both, or give back what they give? How can I face such slaughter and be cool? How can I turn from Africa and live?

- Derek Alton Walcott
  In a Green Night,'A Far Cry from Africa'.

I think I could turn, and live with animals, theyare so placid and self-contain'd.

-Walt(er) Whitman
  Leaves of Grass,'Song of Myself', section 32.

My dear fellow, a unique evening! I wouldn't have left a turn unstoned.

- Arthur Wimperis
After watching a vaudeville show. Quoted in E Short FiftyYears of Vaudeville (1946).