Quotes About Turning Points

#1. Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

#2. It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

Napoleon Hill

#3. Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.

Jeremy Rifkin

#4. Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged.

J.I. Packer

#5. The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Stephen Ambrose

#7. Peter Tertzakian's analysis of world oil is a fascinating reminder that history often foretells the major turning points of the future.

Gwyn Morgan

#8. The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

Jeffrey Skilling

#9. I kept seeing turning points. First the uprising. Then the creation of the Free Syrian Army, the FSA. Now a big assassination bombing in the heart of Assad's government. But the turn never came. It just got worse and worse.

Richard Engel

#10. Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.

Anupam Kher

#11. One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Jimmy Carter

#12. Every war has turning points and every person too.

Meg Rosoff

#13. Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken.

David Jeremiah

#14. Education is at a turning point

Howard Gardner

#15. My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

Pierre Trudeau

#16. We are each other's reference point at our turning points.

Elizabeth Fishel

#17. There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.

Arianna Huffington

#18. But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#19. Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.

Sam Kean

#20. I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

Nadia Comaneci

#21. The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

George Washington

#22. I think one of the turning points for me was when my brother recorded the Neil Young MTV "Unplugged" performance from the TV. My brother is eight years older than me and he was starting to get into things like that.

James Walsh

#23. In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

Kate Morton

#24. One of the turning points in the look of the Guardian is when we decided Logan Thackeray would be a Guardian as opposed to a Warrior. Logan's own protective nature and the fact that the humans have been knocked back into defensive positions informed a lot of what the Guardian became.

Jeff Grubb

#25. Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is by Style that writers gain distinction, by Style they secure their immortality.

George Henry Lewes

#26. I don't believe in right-angled turning points.

Timothy West

#27. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled memories.

Kate Morton

#28. Nuclear episodes stand out in bold print in life story as narrative high points, low points and turning points, explaining how the person has remained the same and how he or she has changed over time.

Dan P. McAdams

#29. It happened in pieces, tiny little turning points. I'll never figure out when it all turned, because it wasn't a single moments. It doesn't matter how many times I look back, how many times I try to figure it out. There is no before and after. Just a year of choices.

Amanda Grace

#30. Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Aidan Chambers

#31. Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established

George Soros

#32. There was something, which was the turning point: I felt very strongly that women were sexualized, and perceived like they are sexual in every move, and it started off really early.

Deniz Gamze Erguven

#33. There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.

Junius Williams

#34. Satan will tempt you with many things in life, but the most powerful is the temptation to be grateful for what you have, when it is not the best life God had to offer you.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Thandie Newton

#36. What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Hilary Mantel

#37. Make your breaking point your turning point.

Dennis Kimbro

#38. Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth ... transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

William Bridges

#39. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.

Meghan Blistinsky

#40. I start with the history, and I ask myself, 'What are the great turning points? What are the big dramatic scenes that are essential to telling the story?'

Ken Follett

#41. I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Tana French

#42. The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#43. Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories - first carefully turning them inside out.

G.K. Chesterton

#44. When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

John De Ruiter

#45. There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.

C.W. Gortner

#46. Turning points in my life ... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls ... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another ... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.

Arthur Lismer