A Quote by Lloyd Alexander

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

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Lloyd Alexander
American - Writer
January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007

Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.

Frances Hardinge

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

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

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

Heraclitus

...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

Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don't turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour.

Salman Khan

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

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

Gregory Maguire

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

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

Marcus Aurelius

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

Jokes aside, let us turn to serious matters.

Horace

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.