Tables Are Turning Quotes

#1. Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

Lenny Kravitz

#2. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.

Marsha Petrie Sue

#3. The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.

Plato

#4. Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

Robert Smithson

#5. Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

Natasha Trethewey

#6. No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. ... and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Our minds control us with desires and fears.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren't mine, that won't ever be mine. It's all I've ever known.
I wish it wasn't.

Elizabeth Scott

#12. Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

James Madison

#13. You've become a fire within me." He pressed her palm to the center of his chest. "Right here. Bringing light to places I never knew were in shadow." His breath shuddered out of him. "I can't go back to the darkness, Fiona." Suza Kates, Chosen Blood

Suza Kates

#14. It is also clear, unfortunately,that ideology runs deeper than the hopeful might have previously imagined. It is not merely a question of turning the tables or changing the language

Nina Power

#15. Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

Henry Giroux

#16. Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Norman Rockwell