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“I used to wonder what it was like to be rich. Now I am and it turns out to be mostly headaches.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Citizen of the Galaxy

Source: Citizen of the Galaxy (1957), Chapter 20 (p. 224)

“Here and there people sat at desks, carefully turning the pages of manuscripts, or unrolling scrolls and making notes. It comforted her. This is a place built to store books, by people who wanted to preserve books, and used by people who want to read those books. I am not alone.”

Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer

Source: The Masked City (2015), Chapter 16 (p. 210)

People, Books, Reading

“My fingers are turning red, my nose is turning red, and that kind of cold, I was, of course, also unfamiliar with. And snow has always had an awe for me. The silence that takes over the world, and just. . . the absolute miracle of snow. I’ve never gotten over it, I have to confess.”

Shobha Rao

On her first exposure to winter in the United States in "Shobha Rao on Moving Between Cultures and Loving Little House on the Prairie" https://lithub.com/shobha-rao-on-moving-between-cultures-and-loving-little-house-on-the-prairie/ in LitHub (2018 Nov 19)

World, Silence

“Thou whose deep ways are in the sea,
Whose footsteps are not known,
To-night a world that turned from Thee
Is waiting — at Thy Throne.The towering Babels that we raised
Where scoffing sophists brawl,
The little Antichrists we praised —
The night is on them all.”

Alfred Noyes (1880–1958) English poet

Dedication, later published as " A Prayer in Time of War http://www.poetseers.org/poets/alfred_noyes/a_prayer_in_time_of_war/" A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)

World, Way, Waiting, Sea

“When a scientific principle puts on the toga of social dignity, it turns itself into a bell or a parrot; such phantoms have always been the most dangerous enemies of reason.”

Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) Croatian writer

Aristocrats of Spirit, in: Eseji IV, p.76 (Zora, 1963)
Essays

“I think anybody who gets to that stage in reality is so beyond self-loathing. If you hate yourself, well, then you're going to turn some of that hatred on the world around you.”

Penn Badgley (1986) American actor and musician

Source: "Penn Badgley Isn't Who You Fans Think He Is" in InStyle https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/penn-badgley-interview-you-2021 (14 October 2021)

Hate, World, Thinking, Reality

“Losing the human form brings the freedom to remember your self. Losing the human form is like a spiral. It gives you the freedom to remember and this in turn makes you even freer.”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Eagle's Gift, (1981)

Freedom

“The spirit manifests itself to a warrior at every turn. However, this is not the entire truth. The entire truth is that the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "The Power of Silence" (Chapter 18)

Truth

“A warrior must learn to be available and unavailable at the precise turn of the read. It is useless for a warrior to be unwittingly available at all times, as it is useless for him to hide when everybody knows that he is hiding.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from "Journey to Ixtlan" (Chapter 8)

Learning, Time, Reading

“We still have forces that want to turn Baku into Beirut. Foreign forces are at work. We must be careful.”

Ayaz Mutallibov (1938–2022) Soviet politician, then president of Azerbaijan

Source: "Azerbaijani Leader, Restored To Power, Imposes Emergency Rule" in The Washington Post https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:epcCRJyvH3AJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/05/15/azerbaijani-leader-restored-to-power-imposes-emergency-rule/c4a5d291-a743-4227-90db-54e0f9739b80/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us (15 May 1992)

“O autumn winds that bake and burn
And all the world to darkness turn,
Now storm and seize and make of me…
A swarm of leaves from Autumn’s Tree!”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 79)

World, Autumn, Tree

“We thank Almighty God, who said in his holy book: Ye who believe, take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them is of them.”

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (1965) One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen

Source: In full: Al-Qaeda statement http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1590350.stm (10th October, 2001)

God, Books

“Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the godhead into a mockery.”

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party

Source: 13 December 1941, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944

Way, Imagination, Idea

“After all, it is not a bad thing that people turn to the Communist Party, enter it seeking a way out of their predicament and approve of its policy. They are not mistaken in coming to us. We welcome them - everyone except for enemy agents, traitors, careerists and ambitious climbers.”

Liu Shaoqi (1898–1969) 2nd President of the People's Republic of China (1898-1969)

Source: "How to Be a Good Communist - 7. Examples of Wrong Ideology in the Party" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/ch07.htm (July 1939)

People, Way

“Cool Papa was so fast that he could turn off the light switch and get into bed before the room got dark.”

Satchel Paige (1906–1982) American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues

Source: "On Today's Scene: Paige Admits He's Feeling His Age" by William Gildea, The Washington Post (Apr 29, 1969), p. D2

Light

“God is Spirit in whom we "live, and move, and have our being." We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make conscious contact with it by turning our attention away from material things and thinking about Spirit. As we practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit showers its life energies into our conscious mind and a great soul expansion follows.”

Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) American mystic

Source: Teach Us to Pray with Cora Fillmore (1941)

Life, God, Soul, Thinking

“We can still avoid the worst consequences, we can still turn this around. But not if we continue like today. You have the resources and possibilities to change the story overnight.”

Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist

Source: 2021, An Open Letter to the Global Media by Greta Thunberg and Vanessa Nakate (October 2021)

Change

“If you think America is irredeemable, turn on the news or get a passport and a ticket on one of those sketchy airlines that puts its web address on the plane. There’s a reason Afghan mothers are handing their babies to us.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

Source: The Lesson of Afghanistan', (2021)

Thinking, Baby

“Those are the lights on the head of death. Death puts them on like a hat and then shoots off on a gallop, gaining on us, getting closer and closer. Sometimes it turns off its lights. But death never stops.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

Death, Light

“When it was my turn to speak, I recommended that the term 'tolerance' in the resolution be replaced with the phrase 'mutual respect.'”

Rajiv Malhotra book Being Different

Source: Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011)
Context: .... As I noted, we 'tolerate' those we consider not good enough, but we do not extend our respect to them. 'Tolerance' implies control over those who do not conform to our norms by allowing them some, though not all, of the rights and privileges we enjoy. A religion which involves the worship of 'false gods' and whose adherents are referred to as 'heathens' can be tolerated, but it cannot be respected. Tolerance is a patronizing posture, whereas respect implies that we consider the other to be equally legitimate – a position which some religions routinely deny to others, instead declaring these 'others' to be 'idol worshippers' or 'infidels' and the like.

“Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book X, 17

Time

“Fear is a whip of God for the undisciplined devotee. When the fear of God enters into the heart, it turns the flask of the heart into pieces.”

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki (1173–1235) Indian Sufi

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 263

God, Fear, Heart

“Don’t passively accept contagions. Turn your mind into an immune system that intercepts invading ideas, assesses them, and destroys the bad ones.”

Guy P. Harrison (1963) American skeptic author

Idea

“Our true Happiness will be when humanity begins to recognise the rights we owe to one another, when hatred turns to love.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Others

Love, Happiness

“True celebration will be when all of mankind upholds the values of humanity; when the vengeance between people turns into love.”

Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950) spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community

Others

Love, People

“Researchers believed that sulfur dioxide emitted by volcanoes would turn into sulfuric acid in the stratosphere, creating a haze of acid droplets that would block the sun's rays and keep them from warming the air below.”

Shawna Vogel science writer

Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)

Sun

“I pledge hereby that I shall act according to the Constitution and fulfill my responsibility as the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people of Japan, while always wishing for the happiness of the people and the peace of the world, turning my thoughts to the people and standing by them.”

Naruhito (1960) Emperor of Japan since 2019

Source: "Naruhito: Japan’s emperor formally proclaims enthronement in centuries-old ceremony" in CNN https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/21/asia/japan-enthronement-emperor-intl-hnk/index.html (22 October 2019)

Happiness, People, World, Peace

“If we are to understand what is going on in Empedocles’s writings, we need to think about the philosophical motives that drive him, and we need to make use of the bits of text we already had before the papyrus turned up.”

Catherine Rowett (1956) Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (born 1956)

Source: Presocratic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction (2004), Ch. 1 : Lost words, forgotten worlds

Motivation, Understanding, Thinking

“Round the birth of "Pickwick" broke one of those literary quarrels that were too common in the life of Dickens.... He turned people into mortal enemies whom he might have turned very easily into immortal jokes.”

G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 4 : "The Pickwick Papers"

Life, People, Birth

“Life confers a value on things -- they do not have any value by themselves -- inasmuch as they are suited to it and satisfy its desires. But this spontaneous evaluation by life is only possible, in turn, if life experiences itself, even through its most humble needs, as what it is and must be, as an absolute value. The fundamental values have no other content than what is implied in life's first experience of itself; they are the proper content of this life.”

Michel Henry (1922–2002) French writer

Michel Henry, Barbarism, Continuum, 2012, p. 97
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Barbarism (1987)

Life

“Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. It is opening the door for the other person to have a chance to begin again. Without forgiveness, resentment builds in us, a resentment which turns into hostility and anger. Hatred eats away at our well-being.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

Without Forgiveness There Is No Future (1998)

Hostility, Forgiveness, Chance, Personality

“We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return ... The coming of the rocket brought to an end a million years of isolation ... the childhood of our race was over and history as we know it began.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

Source: Exploration of Space (1952)

History, Past, Childhood

“The question whether individuals may insist on being heard by rulemakers, for whom they already (directly or indirectly) voted, has bedeviled administrative law since the turn of the century.”

Laurence Tribe (1941) American lawyer and law school professor

Constitutional Choices (1985), The Nature of the Enterprise, The Futile Search for Legitimacy

Law, Question

“The difference between a Hero and an ordinary man is that when the ordinary man comes upon a flaming death swamp full of venomous dragon snakes, he turns around and goes home. The Hero strips down and goes for a swim.”

Jim C. Hines (1974) American writer

Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin Hero (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 60)

Death, Home

“One minute you say you will
and the next you won't,
One minute you want me
and the next you don't,
You're turning me upside down,
Giving me the runaround,
Don't think that I don't know -
I do,
Don't think that I won't go.
You watch me:
It isn't out of question”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

"Out of the Question" (song) Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Out of the Question" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV2E3q9rUXA (song on YouTube) Song lyrics Source: (+ Performed live, 2017.On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oHVxoA5688

Question, Thinking

“Don't turn your thoughts into fears. Turn your dreams into actions and your actions into successes.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Non trasformare i tuoi pensieri in paure. Trasforma i tuoi sogni in azioni e le tue azioni in successi.
Source: prevale.net

Fear, Dreams, Success

“You're hearing evidence of dead people voting and you're hearing people who don't live in the states and you think wow this is gonna be turned down, it's gonna be flipped to the rightful winner, and it never happened.”

Mike Lindell (1961) American businessman

Source: 3 April 2021 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWE0qiU9EEI&t=2m51s with Doug Billings

People, Thinking, Dead

“The difference 'twixt good and bad is not so very much,
A few more minutes at the task, an extra turn or touch,
A final test that all is right—and yet the men are few
Who seem to think it worth their while these extra things to do.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: All That Matters (1922), p.50 - Clinching the Bolt, stanza 3.

Men, Thinking

“It's time to turn this debate around, drive out politics of despair and offer a vision for Britain in Europe.”

John McDonnell (1951) British politician (born 1951)

Source: John McDonnell criticises EU vote campaign 'negativity' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36310486 BBC News (17 May 2016)

Time, Despair

“In everything we are destroyers – even in the instruments of destruction to which we turn for relief. The very socialism and internationalism through which our choked spirit seeks utterance, which seem to threaten your way of life, are alien to our spirit's demands and needs. Your socialists and internationalists are not serious. The charm of these movements, the attraction, such as it is, which they exercise, is only in their struggle: it is the fight which draws your gentile radicals.”

Maurice Samuel (1895–1972) novelist, translator and lecturer

You Gentiles (1924) Source: pp. 152-153 https://archive.org/details/you-gentiles-maurice-samuel-1924-217pgs-rel.sml/page/152/mode/1up

Life, Way, Exercises, Fight

“I felt it was shaving away my soul little by little…The music industry is this supersaturated version of consumerism. You are the product being consumed, bought, and sold. Even the people on your team who are your friends, the very foundation of your dynamic is that they get a percentage of your income. Every time I turned something down, it would mean that they would make less money.”

Mitski (1990) Japanese-American singer-songwriter

Laurel Hell Source: On why she initially decided to leave the music industry in Mitski Had to Quit Music to Love It” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mitski-new-album-laurel-hell-cover-story-1272973/ in Rolling Stone (2021 Dec 27)

Money, People, Music, Soul

“Seemed like I couldn't stand it any more,
The factory whistles blowin' day by day,
An' men an' children hurryin' by the door,
An' street cars clangin' on their busy way.
The faces of the people seemed to be
Washed pale by tears o' grief an' strife an' care,
Till everywhere I turned to I could see
The same old gloomy pictures of despair.The windows of the shops all looked the same,
Decked out with stuff their owners wished to sell;
When visitors across our doorway came
I could recite the tales they'd have to tell.
All things had lost their old-time power to please;
Dog-tired I was an' irritable, too,
An' so I traded chimney tops for trees,
An' shingled roof for open skies of blue.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: When Day is Done (1921), The Cure for Weariness, stanzas 1 and 2

Men, Children, People, Dogs

“Oh, my shoulders grow aweary of the burdens I am bearin',
An' I grumble when I'm footsore at the rough road I am farin',
But I strap my knapsack tighter till I feel the leather bind me,
An' I'm glad to bear the burdens for the ones who come behind me.
It's for them that I am ploddin', for the children comin' after;
I would strew their path with roses and would fill their days with laughter.Oh, there's selfishness within me, there are times it gets to talkin',
Times I hear it whisper to me, "It's a dusty road you're walkin';
Why not rest your feet a little; why not pause an' take your leisure?
Don't you hunger in your strivin' for the merry whirl of pleasure?"
Then I turn an' see them smilin' an' I grip my burdens tighter,
For the joy that I am seekin' is to see their eyes grow brighter.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: The Path to Home (1919), p.112 - The Burden Bearer, stanzas 1 and 2.

Hunger, Children, Pleasure, Feeling

“How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you quit a thing that you like a lot?
You may talk of pluck; it's an easy word,
And where'er you go it is often heard;
But can you tell to a jot or guess
Just how much courage you now possess?You may stand to trouble and keep your grin,
But have you tackled self-discipline?
Have you ever issued commands to you
To quit the things that you like to do,
And then, when tempted and sorely swayed,
Those rigid orders have you obeyed?Don't boast of your grit till you've tried it out,
Nor prate to men of your courage stout,
For it's easy enough to retain a grin
In the face of a fight there's a chance to win,
But the sort of grit that is good to own
Is the stuff you need when you're all alone.How much grit do you think you've got?
Can you turn from joys that you like a lot?
Have you ever tested yourself to know
How far with yourself your will can go?
If you want to know if you have grit,
Just pick out a joy that you like, and quit.It's bully sport and it's open fight;
It will keep you busy both day and night;
For the toughest kind of a game you'll find
Is to make your body obey your mind.
And you never will know what is meant by grit
Unless there's something you've tried to quit.”

Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer

Source: Just Folks (1917), On Quitting

Men, Game, Courage, Business

“Mass schooling damages children. We don’t need any more of it. And under the guise that it is the same thing as education, it has been picking our pockets just as Socrates predicted it would thousands of years ago. One of the surest ways to recognize real education is by the fact that it doesn’t cost very much, doesn’t depend on expensive toys or gadgets. The experiences that produce it and the Mass schooling that propels it are nearly free. It is hard to turn a dollar on education. But schooling is a wonderful hustle, getting sharper all the time.”

John Taylor Gatto book Dumbing Us Down

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 70

Children, Education, School, Way

“People who object to the by-product hypothesis [for female orgasm] are doing something strange: They're saying that it's hugely important to them that female orgasm turns out to be an adaptation, like vomiting, cobra venom, and the scorpion's stinger, rather than a "mere" cultural invention, like science, medicine, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

Steve Stewart-Williams (1971)

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 59

People, Universe, Science

“If we were always here and now,
electric shiver in the spine,
how could we turn away, see life as grey and drab?
How come we don't see what we have?”

Peter Hammill (1948) British musician

Source: "Now Lover" on 'Skin (1986)

Life

“Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness. No matter how easy it is to turn it off, it keeps trying to fight its way back in”

movie Vampire diaries

This TV show has changed my life and the perspective I have on my life as a vampire.

Way, Fight

“The basic principle [of hermetic drift semiotics] is not only that the similar can be known through the similar but also that from similarity to similarity everything can be connected with everything else, so that everything can be in turn either the expression or the content of any other thing.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

U. Eco (1990), The limits of Intepretation, as quoted in Thomas A. Sebeok, Jean Umiker-Sebeok (2020), The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics https://books.google.it/books?id=NUK0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53.

“Humanity, wake up! Turn Godwards. Turn towards the Divine Light while there is yet time. You can yet mend and make good. However low you may have fallen you can rise yet. The Lord has assured glory even to the worst sinner, if he but mends his ways.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

Sayings of Swami Sivanada (1947)

Way, Light, Time

“How did a nation founded on so much heartache turn into a culture of normative smiles?”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 5, title, at p. 117

Smile

“It's not that pain equals art. It's that creativity has the power to look pain in the eye, and to decide to turn it into something better. ... The quest to transform pain into beauty is one of the great catalysts of artistic expression.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Bittersweet, Chapter 3 at p. 61

Pain, Beauty, Art

“Immigration was, and is, an issue. In my constituency it has for years been question number one, into which discussion of every other political topic—housing, health, benefits, employment—promptly turned.”

Enoch Powell (1912–1998) British politician

'Tories in the Wilderness', The Sunday Telegraph (18 October 1964), quoted in Paul Corthorn, Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain (2019), p. 79
1960s

Health, Question, Housing

“The plaint that there hasn’t been enough time for the eye to evolve turns out to be not just wrong but dramatically, decisively, ignominiously wrong.”

Richard Dawkins book Climbing Mount Improbable

Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 5, “The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment” (p. 166)

Decision, Time

“When you listen to music, you can transcend your own pain and turn towards another and feel bonded with the whole of humanity because you know that they have felt that grief and love. By expressing it, by communing with that song or picture, you realize you are not alone.”

Susan Cain book Bittersweet

Walker, Suzy (interviewer). "The Big Happiness Interview: Susan Cain on how embracing sadness can make us happier", Metro, June 5, 2022.
Bittersweet

Love, Pain, Music, Feeling

“We don’t need ‘masters’ that dictate to other countries, let alone politicizing and turning the human rights issue into a tool, practicing double standards and interference in the internal affairs of other countries under the pretext of human rights.”

Xi Jinping (1953) General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and paramount leader of China

"Xi Jinping Defends China's Human Rights Record Amid Accusations Over Uyghur Camps" https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/china/xi-jinping-defends-chinas-human-rights-record-amid-accusations-over-uyghur-camps-articleshow.html in Republic World (25 May 2002) 2020s

Country

“Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Mark II: 13–22, p. 31
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

God, World, Wedding

“The act of processing the memories I had suppressed for decades had freed me to see not just younger me, but the younger versions of my mother and father in their full dimensions. That in turn allowed me to honour everything we had been and had experienced—both the good and the bad.”

Qian Julie Wang (1987) Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer

"Author Q&A: Qian Julie Wang" https://www.26.org.uk/articles/interviews/author-qa-qian-julie-wang (23 December 2021)

Memory

“This body of ours, which we cherish so dearly, will turn into a corpse that our friends and family will only want to dispose of as quickly as possible.”

Dilgo Khyentse (1910–1991) Bhutanese Buddhist Lama

Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (1992)

Family

“I remembered you was conflicted
Misusing your influence, sometimes I did the same
Abusing my power full of resentment
Resentment that turned into a deep depression
Found myself screamin' in the hotel room”

Kendrick Lamar (1987) American rapper, songwriter and record producer from California

Song lyrics, To Pimp a Butterfly (2015)

“In a clan society, every kind of human relationship turns on your honor within the clan; outside it, there is nothing—you are excluded from any kind of meaningful existence.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 11, “School and Sexuality” (p. 152)

“I'm Really Serious. Do Not Turn the Page. You Will Regret It.”

Dave Barry book Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs

Source: Nonfiction, Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs (1997), p. xvii

“Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.”

Archilochus (-680–-645 BC) Ancient Greek lyric poet

Fragment 122

Men, God, Fear, Light

“I remember everything
Things I can't forget
The way you turned and smiled on me
On the night that we first met
And I remember every night
Your ocean eyes of blue
How I miss you in the morning light
Like roses miss the dew”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

Song lyrics, I Remember Everything (2020)

Smile, Way, Light, Night

“It is sad for us to report this, but the clock has been turned back and California agriculture, with the exception of a handful of contracts that we still hold, we now have the labor contractor, the crew leader system back again, we now have child labor back again.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

Sadness

“Turn on the news and every conversation is a confrontation. Every disagreement is a crisis. But when you take a step back and look at what’s happening, we’re actually making real progress. Maybe it doesn’t seem fast enough”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Biden Celebrates Drop in Unemployment Even as Job Growth Weakens (8 October 2021) https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/biden-celebrates-drop-in-unemployment-even-as-job-growth-weakens-1.1663842 2021, October 2021

“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”

Raheel Farooq Pakistani writer

Kalam (2018)

Men, World, Hell

“On the Death of Jim Larkin

Not with public words now can his greatness
Be told to the children, for he was more
Than a labour-agitating orator —
The flashing flaming sword merely bore witness
To the coming of the dawn. ‘Awake and look!
The flowers are growing for you, and wonderful trees,
And beyond are not the serf’s grey docks, but seas —
Excitement out of the creator’s poetry book.

When the Full Moon’s in the River the ghost of bread
Must not haunt all your weary wanderings home.
The ships that were dark galleys can become
Pine forests under the winter’s starry plough
And the brown gantries will be the lifted hand
Of man the dreamer whom the gods endow.’

And thus I hear Jim Larkin shout above
The crowd who wanted him to turn aside
From Reality coming to free them. Terrified
They hid in the clouds of dope and would not move.
They ate the opium of the murderer’s story
In the Sunday newspapers; they stood to stare
Not at a blackbird, but at a millionaire
Whose horses ran for serfdom’s greater glory.

And Tyranny trampled them in Dublin’s gutter,
Until Larkin came along and cried
The call of Freedom and the call of Pride,
And Slavery crept to its hands and knees,
And Nineteen Thirteen cheered from out the utter
Degradation of their miseries.”

Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) poet

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND1NCf1ZRFM

Death, God, Children, Books

“In this world, to survive you have to be a strong, courageous woman, a woman who overcomes difficulties by turning them into successes. A woman with dedication, intuition, costancy, honor, loyalty and sweetness. A woman not for everyone, but only for those who dare to have her by her side.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: In questo mondo, per sopravvivere devi essere una donna forte, coraggiosa, una donna che supera le difficoltà trasformandole in successi. Una donna con dedizione, intuizione, costanza, onore, lealtà e dolcezza. Una donna non per tutti, ma solo per chi osa averla al suo fianco.
Source: prevale.net

World, Courage, Strong, Success

“I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew —
Only more sure of all I thought was true.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

"Into My Own", st. 4 (1913)
General sources

Change

“I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may.
But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

1880s, 1880, Letter to Theo (Cuesmes, July 1880)

Search, Idea, Study, Painting

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Dune (1965)

Death, Fear, Past

“The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.”

Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964) U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of the Philippines

Audio clip (ogg format)
1950s, Farewell address to Congress (1951)

God, World, Dreams, Hope

“After that night on lake Gosser, I turned into a zesty 27-year-old ze/zir. after the funeral for my pops and my uncle Jonny, I went down to the bait shop to do a little fishin after I hada taco or two and did my hurdles for "cross country" (wink wink im mexican). I then put a roof on my penitas house and went to sleep in the fortress of dreams with a mecican flag above my head.”

Henry_toth

Dreams, Sleep, Housing, Night

“Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.”

A.E. Samaan

Source: SHADES OF VANITY: Shades and Shadows of Eroticism

Hunger

“Humanity's indifference to the next century's problems will turn against its well-being in this.”

Zafar Mirzo (1972)

Problem, Indifference

“We are Creation in the Human Form. In other words…. our Body is the Church of God. Therefore the Kitchen must also be respected as a Temple, because the FOOD that’s prepared in it enters our Body, which becomes the BLOOD that in turn must Serve our greater Being. As such we can Change the World from WITHIN.”

Roy Littlesun (1934)

God, World, Food, Change

“Life unfolds in very unique and mysterious ways. We are made by the actions we take or the inactions that solidifies with our environment to bring about a choice for us to take action or inaction and this cycle repeats and repeats to bring us to this point we are in time. When all of our individual actions accumulate this brings about a great change to our environment which in turn changes us as it slowly evolves.
When you contemplate this simple
concept further you realise at one point we have the ability to change our environment and at another point we can't help but be changed by our environment; our environment defines us as people and as people we shape our environment but as all great things we are limited by our very own environment but we still have the capacity of changing said environment, Here my friends is a paradox of life.”

N3du

Life, People, Way, Change

“In love people often overlook flaws, dismiss weaknesses, and even forget mistakes. But when that feeling gradually diminishes and then leaves, they turn into a different person than they were before.”

Titon Rahmawan

Love, People, Feeling, Personality

“Mistakes and omissions are one thing to correct. We will not throw away the hard rice, as long as it is still edible. We can still turn it into fried rice. But ignorance is a different matter. Those who are ignorant and unwilling to learn can no longer be corrected.”

Titon Rahmawan

Learning

“I know that our efforts all come to nothing. Analyze life, tear its trappings off, lay it bare with thought, with logic, with philosophy, and its emptiness is revealed as a bottomless pit; its nothingness frankly confesses to nothingness, and Despair comes to perch in the soulI know the end of us all is nothing, I know that at the end of Time, the reward of our toil will be nothing — and again nothing. I know that all our handiwork and all our ideas will be destroyed. I know that not even ash will be left from the fires that consume us. I know that our ideals, even those we achieve, will vanish in the eternal darkness of oblivion and final non-being. There is no hope, none, in my heart. I know, No promise, none, can I make to myself and to others. No recompense can I expect for my labors. No fruit will be born of my thoughts. I know the time — eternal seducer of all men, eternal cause of all effects — offers me nothing but the blank prospect of annihilation. So, my dignity is broken and weak, in recognition of my impending defeat.

The man who is alone, who stands on his own feet, who is stripped bare, who asks for nothing and wants nothing, who has reached the apex of disinterestedness not through blind renunciation but through excess of clear vision, turns to the world which stretches out before him as a burned prairie, as a devastated city — a world in which no churches, asylums, refuges, ideals, are left — and says: «Though you promise me nothing I am still with you, I am still an atom of your energies, my work is part of your work; I am your companion and your mirror as you march on your merciless way. But I owe nothing to any one. I would be responsible to freedom alone.”

Alexis Karpouzos (1967)

Source: https://alexiskarpouzos.medium.com/at-the-end-of-time-alexis-karpouzos-0b5a34cfbbe9

Life, Men, World, Hope

“By ignoring truth and by creating YOUR OWN reality, you can turn yourself into a cancer cell within the collective and within the universe at large.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Truth, Reality, Universe

“Always let your smile illuminate the world, never giving anyone the opportunity to turn it off.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Lascia sempre che il tuo sorriso illumini il mondo, senza mai dare a nessuno l'opportunità di spegnerlo.
Source: prevale.net

World, Smile

“The worst thing you could ever do to someone from a position of authority is to turn them against themselves. The worst thing you could do is to make them believe that it is wrong to feel how they feel and so something must be wrong with them. It is not malice that makes 'therapists' do this. It is ignorance. But it is ignorance that must end. And I will dedicate myself to ending that ignorance for as long as I draw breath.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Feeling, Drawing

“In moments of fragility we need to stop, relax, turn off every type of thought, and start again from ourselves.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Nei momenti di fragilità abbiamo bisogno di fermarci, rilassarci, spegnere ogni tipo di pensiero, e ricominciare da noi stessi.
Source: prevale.net

“Creativity belongs to those who is capable of turning their dreams into reality.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La creatività appartiene a chi è capace di trasformare i propri sogni in realtà.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams, Reality

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“Latin American government decisions, in general terms, discourage the development of the arts, turning artists into true martyrs of a cause, creating a vicious cycle in which ordinary people fail to notice the importance of cultural development, focusing on money as the axis of their lives.”

José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor

Source: https://www.peruinforma.com/entrevista-cultural-al-escritor-chileno-jose-baroja/

Money, People, Art, Decision

“With willpower and determination, you will turn your dream into action.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Con volontà e determinazione, trasformerete il vostro sogno in azione.
Source: prevale.net

Dreams

“Being beautiful and correct people, but above all good and selfless, can often turn out to be a great flaw: be the most disgustingly exploited people.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Essere belle e corrette persone, ma soprattutto buone ed altruiste, spesso potrebbe rivelarsi un grande difetto: essere le persone più disgustosamente sfruttate.
Source: prevale.net

People, Beauty

“Smiles must be provoked, not turned off.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: I sorrisi vanno provocati, non spenti.
Source: prevale.net

Smile

“With time, it's important to turn pain into resource, developing strength, resistence and self-esteem.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Con il tempo, è importante trasformare il dolore in risorsa, sviluppando forza, resistenza e autostima.
Source: prevale.net

Pain, Time

“A strong and solid mental connection turns a simple attraction into an intense relationship.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Una forte e solida connessione mentale trasforma una semplice attrazione in un'intensa relazione.
Source: prevale.net

Strong

“Dance music is energy in motion that turns sound into healthy fun.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La musica dance è energia in movimento che trasforma il suono in sano divertimento.
Source: prevale.net

Music, Dance

“Every day, the true secret is not to change the world, but to dominate your own thoughts and behaviours. Choosing how to react when faced with difficulties, turning obstacles into opportunities.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Ogni giorno, il vero segreto non è cambiare il mondo, ma dominare i propri pensieri e comportamenti. Scegliere come reagire di fronte alle difficoltà, trasformando gli ostacoli in opportunità.
Source: prevale.net

Secret, World, Change

“Learning to manage one's inner life does not mean repressing emotions, but preventing the mind from turning into an enemy.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Imparare a gestire la propria vita interiore non significa reprimere emozioni, ma impedire alla mente di trasformarsi in un nemico.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Learning

“Recognizing our frailties without fearing them is the first step in turning them into strengths and preventing others from using them against us.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Riconoscere le nostre fragilità senza temerle è il primo passo per trasformarle in punti di forza e impedire agli altri di usarle contro di noi.
Source: prevale.net

Fear

“Turning difficulties into allies by devising solutions it means not to suffer events, but to manage them, training mental flexibility and concentrating only on what you can control.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Trasformare le difficoltà in alleate ideando soluzioni significa non subire gli eventi, ma gestirli, allenando la flessibilità mentale e concentrandosi solo su ciò che si può controllare.
Source: prevale.net

Suffering, Training

“The logical and behavioral inconsistency of some individuals inevitably destroys their credibility, turning them into definitely ridiculous figures.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: L'incoerenza logica e comportamentale di alcuni individui ne distrugge inevitabilmente la credibilità, trasformandoli in figure decisamente ridicole.
Source: prevale.net

Behavior

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