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What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

I struggle immensely with celebrities of all kinds. I get clammy hands and turn a little purple.

I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

I am not interested in considering another TV series. This one was a wonderful experience which will be hard to top, and It's caused me to turn down several good film opportunities because of the schedule.

When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum.

Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of them.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

We want to turn our inventory faster than our people.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that.

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.