Turn Aside Quotes

#1. Without the lord to shield you and guide you, you gonna fade away. Jah is your shield and your guide. The wicked man gotta turn aside. No need to fear no wicked guide. Rastafari protect your life!

Sizzla

#2. The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

Lloyd Alexander

#3. 21And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

Anonymous

#4. Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

Henri Barbusse

#5. I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

David Ricardo

#6. I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. The thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity.

Victor Hugo

#8. It was something ... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact.

Joe Hill

#9. each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lay ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#10. Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you."
"I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.

Nora Roberts

#11. She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.

Philip Pullman

#12. But the true voyagers are only those who leave
Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons,
They never turn aside from their fatality
And without knowing why they always say: Let's go!

Charles Baudelaire

#13. Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honore De Balzac

#14. From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

Edward Gibbon

#15. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

William Cowper

#16. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

#17. Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#18. Ho, you pretty man, turn aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay at him so flatteringly that she had him in her grot which is named Two-in-the-Bush or, by some learned, Carnal Concupiscence.

James Joyce

#19. When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge; no fact can deflect their point of view.

Louise Erdrich

#20. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

#21. Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Charles Dickens

#22. And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery;

W.B.Yeats

#23. God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

#24. The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

Heraclitus

#25. Remember that the Mirror shows many things, and not all have yet come to pass. Some never come to be, unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them. The Mirror is dangerous as a guide of deeds.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#26. It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

Mary Stewart

#27. 20 Samuel said to the people, "Fear not! Indeed you have done all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following ADONAI, but worship ADONAI with all your heart. 21 Do not turn aside to go after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are futile.

Messianic Jewish Bible

#28. I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Charles Hermite

#29. I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of things that clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

Albert Einstein

#30. Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

Will Christopher Baer

#31. My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

Heraclitus

#33. The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

Benjamin Cardozo

#34. Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Meister Eckhart

#35. When we turn life's little pleasures into remedies for life's troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

Lydia Brownback

#36. If you cast me out of the Dagger Society, then I will form my own. I am tired of losing. I am tired of being used, hurt and tossed aside.
It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
My turn.

Marie Lu

#37. To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures. And

Steven Pinker

#38. You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Frank Herbert

#39. The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

Henry Van Dyke

#40. The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through
our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what
Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict
on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life ...

Virginia Woolf

#41. No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#42. And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?

Charlotte Bronte

#43. I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.

Marie Lu

#44. And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.

Ally Condie

#45. That small freckle postulates a grin on my face:
see to it that midnight reeks insomniac on your eyes;
I turn the pillow upside down to not smell my breath again
Is there, aside from my memory, for you a better place?

Ashfaq Saraf

#46. Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Horace

#47. You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Frank Herbert

#48. Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat.

Pope Francis

#49. The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

Terry Brooks

#50. Style, not least, adds beauty to the world. To a literate reader, a crisp sentence, an arresting metaphor, a witty aside, an elegant turn of phrase are among life's greatest pleasures.

Steven Pinker

#51. If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?

Charlotte Bronte

#52. Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Robert E.Lee

#53. In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

Mare Winningham

#54. For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God

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