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As long as you're willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends. — Donald Miller

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes. — Ray Stevens

The hard part about one being tough yet meek is the illusion of being a punching bag. — Criss Jami

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging. — Heather Blanton

Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game. — Dwight Howard

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek. — Malcolm X

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ. — Luiz Felipe Scolari

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it. — John Lydon

If revenge is sweet, why does it leave such a bitter taste? In disarming Peter, Christ disarmed ever knight. Turn the other cheek. — Angela Elwell Hunt

The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek. — Mario Puzo

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years. — Malcolm X

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. — Malcolm X

If somebody stamps on your head in that way, you wouldn't say, 'thank you very much' and turn the other cheek. Only Jesus Christ did that. — Arsene Wenger

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive. — Rob McElhenney

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. — James Madison

Things do not change; we change. — Henry David Thoreau

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too. — Charles Barkley

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people. — Michael Connelly

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work. — Alice Bag

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though. — Jim Carrey

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek. — Kenny Rogers

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things. — Phil Jackson

To turn the other cheek is not to give your enemy a knife to kill you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Waitressing required patience, a fixed and convincing smile, and the ability to continuously turn the other cheek while keeping diet sodas topped up. — Maggie Stiefvater

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays. — Peter Singer

As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile. — Dorothy Day

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also, — Leo Tolstoy