Citations:the wheel turns

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English citations of the wheel turns

Proverb: "time moves forward; circumstances change; life continues"[edit]

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  • 1979, The New Yorker, Volume 55, Part 5, unknown page:
    [] I said, 'I'm not going to argue, but I think you're making a terrible mistake. And, as you know, the wheel turns.' Then he came to see me when he was running in the primary for attorney general. He asked for my endorsement. I said, 'Bobby, don't you remember I told you the wheel turns? It has has turned. No, I won't support you.' After I do that, the slate is clean. I wipe it clean after the wheel has turned."
  • 2010, Laurent Fignon, We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon (trans. by William Fotheringham), Yellow Jersey Press (2010; original French version published 2009), →ISBN, page 64:
    You have to accept that a new world pushes out the old. The wheel turns.
  • 2011, Angela Greg, Murder in the Lane, AuthorHouse (2011), →ISBN, page 25:
    "I'm sorry, Paul. I know you went through hell with her nonsense, and I don't know how you put up with so much for Sammy, but the wheel turns, mate. Keep cool and let me know what you plan to do."
  • 2012 January 1, Stephen Moffat, "A Scandal in Belgravia", episode 2-1 of Sherlock, 01:12:34-01:12:47:
    Sherlock Holmes: There's going to be a bomb on a passenger jet. British and American governments know about it, but rather than expose the source of their information, they're going to let it happen. The plane will blow up. Coventry all over again. The wheel turns, nothing is ever new.