Turning Quotes - page 27
Turning a small surface of water into vapour by fire, applied to the bottom of the cylinder that contains it; which vapour forces up the plug (or piston) in the cylinder to a considerable height, and which, as the vapour condenses, (as the water cools when taken from the fire,) descends again by air's pressure, and is applied to raise water out of the mine.
Denis Papin
The trodden worms, which had so long writhed under the iron heel of the oppressor, were turning at last. The smouldering fire of discontent was shooting out tongues of flame here and there. The sore stricken, who had brooded in sullen anger over their wrongs, were rising to strike in their turn.
Joseph Arch
I was walking down by the river. I lay down under a tree. I was broke. I felt pretty low. Then I looked up at the sky-all blue except for one little, white, fleecy cloud. The words came to me for the song-quicker than it's taking me to tell it to you. I got up-and I had new hope. That was the turning point in my life.
Johnnie Ray
I've really noticed over the last few years how many people are turning towards eating vegetarian or vegan. [...] Everyone's realizing that these things are delicious and good for you. And I think it's an indication of how we're becoming more conscious of what we do to our bodies by what we put into them and what we do to the planet.
Alan Cumming
If Western Europe and the United States committed seven billion dollars annually to the cause of clean drinking water worldwide, that investment would save four thousand lives a day”...
"Seven billion dollars. That's less than what Europeans spend each year for perfume and Americans for cosmetic surgery. Before he went to the gallows, Enoch Anthem spoke often about Christ turning water into wine, but he never once implored Christendom to turn perfume into water.
James K. Morrow
The struggle against arbitrariness, as violence and as deception, requires people to build a society that is less hostage to itself. No central aspect of its arrangements must be left invisible or immune to challenge in the normal course of our routines of conflict and exchange. Objectivity is achieved not by holding fast to a given structure, resolutely contrasted to the hell of force and fraud, but by rendering the structure insubstantial-by turning it, increasingly, into the structure of no structure. This is the realistic next best to the visionary ideal of a circumstance in which all hierarchies and divisions have fallen down forever. The next best consists in the circumstance in which these hierarchies and divisions are repeatedly dragged out into the light of struggle and revision.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
I've always been an animal-lover and when I was about twelve I became a vegetarian. My mom subscribed to PETA's magazine and I just started looking at the level of what it was. And I just thought it was unkind, so I made my personal choice - which at that point had nothing to do with the global scale of the situation. And so I know it was really early, but I made up my mind then to become an entertainer primarily because I thought I could help. I noticed that all my friends respected entertainers and knew more entertainers names than politicians names, so that was my turning point from possibly doing politics to entertainment ... So that was one of the reasons I went into this field. And then the more I kept going career-wise, the more I've been able to use that vehicle - that megaphone. And that was exciting - the only exciting part, personally, about being a celebrity. I don't think there's anything good about it, except the ability to make positive change.
Persia White
Thus we see remarkable indications of God's returning favor to Israel: in driving them out of other countries by great persecutions, in opening up Palestine to receive them, in inviting them thither by special providences in their favor in the way of benevolent enterprises for their improvement and assistance, and also in this significant movement which is the beginning of the turning away of Israel's blindness. And how evidently it is all of God!
Charles Taze Russell
Nearby.... are monsters personifying Pestilence and Famine, those inseparable partners of War. On the ground, turning her back, lies a woman with a broken lute representing Harmony... [T]here is also a mother with a child in her arms indicating that fecundity, procreation and charity are thwarted by War, which corrupts and destroys everything.
Peter Paul Rubens
Translations [into the German language], even the best ones, proceed from a mistaken premise. They want to turn Hindi, Greek, English into German instead of turning German into Hindi, Greek, English. ... The basic error of the translator is that he preserves the state in which his own language happens to be instead of allowing his language to be powerfully affected by the foreign tongue.
Rudolf Pannwitz
