Top 100 Quotes About Turns
#1. Jesus does not turn away from the world, but turns to face it. Jesus came down. He turns toward. He makes his face to shine upon. He shows compassion. He sits with. His with-ness is so important that every time we say his name, we declare it - Immanuel, God with us.
Emily P. Freeman
#2. Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#3. Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
George R R Martin
#4. Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.
Nhat Hanh
#5. Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.
Brian Tracy
#6. [..] when we get down to the subatomic level, the solid world we live in also consists, again rather worryingly, of almost nothing and that whenever we do find something it turns out not to actually something, but only the probability that there may something there.
Douglas Adams
#7. Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!
Josip Novakovich
#8. Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
Henry David Thoreau
#9. The happiness state, when examined more closely, turns out not to be a point but a range, with contentment at the bottom and exaltation at the top ... there are probably as many forms of happiness as there are of depression.
Michael Foley
#10. If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.
H.G.Wells
#11. It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.
Seth Klarman
#12. Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
Hannah Murray
#13. But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.
Joe Abercrombie
#14. I bring the girl to a museum, try to show her a little culture, and she turns a Chihuly into a giant phallus.
Nicki Elson
#15. First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
Huston Smith
#16. I say this to myself alone: when you feel crushed, those around you look broken. When you glow, darkness turns to black light. If you hurt, even the comforts you are offered wound you. As you prosper, your failures prove to be just the right thing, perfect.
Bahauddin
#17. My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
#18. But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.
Matthew Arnold
#19. As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.
Hannah Hart
#21. It's a miracle when something actually turns out well because there are so many ways for it to go wrong.
Susan Sarandon
#22. The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.
Jason Schwartzman
#24. Oppression often turns out to be the expectations we impose on ourselves and the expectations we interpret those around us as having.
Jo Nesbo
#25. If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
Michael Connelly
#26. Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
Ani DiFranco
#27. We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
Plato
#28. Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Douglas B. Reeves
#29. I notice the older I get, the more my speaking voice turns people around. Even if they have no idea who I am, they know they've heard this weird nasal disaster somewhere before.
Jay Baruchel
#30. Listen to the fleshbody," the dropwort retorts. "A mere seventeen turns of the seasons on this ancient earth of ours, and yet he dismisses us.
Maryrose Wood
#31. It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.
Ralph W. Moss
#32. I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.
David Levithan
#33. Despite my affection for subtext and plot and prose at its best... life, it turns out, is nothing more than the finer details.
Bailey Vincent
#34. Fake it until you make it. Pretend to be somebody until that somebody turns into you.
Steven Tyler
#35. Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.
Russell Brand
#36. There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.
Prince Royce
#37. President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.
Jay Leno
#38. By writing books, a man turns into a universe.
Milan Kundera
#39. When he takes a penalty, Graham Alexander turns his foot into a spatula-type device
Mike Parry
#40. Fang is not the huggiest person in the world - he turns into an unbending statue, and you just have to do the best you can. Which
James Patterson
#41. In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#42. One time you take a hundred thousand dollars and let a vampire go, the whole world turns on you like you're some kind of bad guy.
Christopher Moore
#43. My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.
Galen Rowell
#44. If he turns out to be gay, I will be furious. They get all the good ones!
David Levithan
#45. or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion." He did not mean, of course, that religion turns all good people bad, but merely some of them,
Jerry A. Coyne
#46. People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'
Rodney Brooks
#47. Any time the United States government turns over an American citizen, including military personnel, to the government of another country, it is in our nature to want to make sure that they receive the best treatment, the fairest treatment, and the most humane treatment.
Howard Baker
#48. Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
John Buchan
#49. A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#50. A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Euripides
#52. It turns out that running 26.2 miles, and training body and soul to do it, is useful for heartbreak," she wrote. "It does not mend anything, your muscles are all broken, and that becomes the point. Everything is weary and strained and exhausted like your heart.
Celia Viggo Wexler
#53. When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
Oprah Winfrey
#54. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Shel Silverstein
#55. Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.
Alice Oswald
#56. At this point, Underwood turns to us and remarks that "the only thing more satisfying than convincing someone to do what I want is failing to persuade them on purpose. It's like a Do Not Enter sign - it just begs you to walk through the door.
J. Edward Hackett
#57. I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.
Ben Rector
#58. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.
William Poundstone
#59. The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.
Hugh Hefner
#61. Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.
Jamaica Kincaid
#62. Why is it that an extended olive branch often turns to a clinched fist of hatred?
Don Williams
#63. It turns out we're very good at not seeing things
Jack Hitt
#64. It all turns on affection now," said Margaret. "Affection. Don't you see?... And affection, when reciprocated, gives rights. Put that down in your notebook, Mr. Mansbridge. It's a useful formula.
E. M. Forster
#65. She looks at me, this is not what she had expected, she sniffs at the food and only slowly starts to eat, swallows each mouthful with demonstrative gloom, and then turns to look at me again, a long look, with those eyes, sighs and goes on, as if she were emptying the poisoned chalice. Spoiled dog.
Per Petterson
#66. And then all at once love turns up, and you're done for, done for.
Leo Tolstoy
#67. First of all is the fact that I have some rather good turns of phrase. I don't say that pridefully ... it's just that when a line I forgot about smacks me in the face and says, "Look at me! Aren't I lovely?" I have to notice.
Rachel Heffington
#68. You forget my name?" "No." "Then, don't call me sir. It turns me on,
Ella Frank
#69. In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.
Robert A. Heinlein
#70. Isn't love the most horrible thing! I think it's just horrible. it just does one in, and turns one into a sort of howling animal.
D.H. Lawrence
#71. Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.
Toni Morrison
#72. A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
#73. What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.
Walter Benjamin
#74. Do you have no sense of decency?
He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door.
Carolyn Crane
#75. The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch
#76. It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
Emile Durkheim
#77. The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
Adam Davidson
#78. Life is a journey of ups, downs, failures, and turns. Make sure it won't make you sick in the end.
Kisha Rivera
#79. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Paul Simon
#80. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
Lance Morrow
#81. It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
Tennessee Williams
#82. I love lingerie and feminine things. It makes me feel nice look good and turn somebody on by doing so. It's an incredible rush. And when it turns a man on - fantastic. But no matter what, I'm getting off.
Lorri Bagley
#83. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.
Libba Bray
#84. He's made himself a rabbit-skin cap, Jim, and a rabbit-skin collar that he buttons on outside his coat. They ain't got but one overcoat among 'em over there, and they take turns wearing it. They seem awful scared of cold, and stick in that hole in the bank like badgers.
Willa Cather
#85. Dancing almost always turns out to be a good idea.
Anne Lamott
#86. In the end it's the pain of being replaceable that turns out to be the hardest to bear.
Tamar Cohen
#87. Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#88. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another's conversations constantly. It's like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street.
Garth Stein
#89. Words aren't just sounds or shapes. They're meaning. That's what language is: a protocol for transferring meaning. When you learn English, you train your brain to react in a particular way to particular sounds. As it turns out, the protocol can be hacked.
Max Barry
#90. Shadows that children make on the wall," said Petra, "and someone turns the light off." "Or turns a brighter one on," said Alai, "and the shadows disappear.
Orson Scott Card
#91. French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Stephen King
#92. Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do." As
Suzanne Collins
#93. It is only when she turns to close the door that I see a tattoo on the back of her neck, a black-and-white hawk with a red eye. If I didn't feel like my heart had migrated to my throat, I would ask her what it signifies. It must signify something.
Veronica Roth
#94. He's usually the confident intellect, but every once in a while when he's around me, he turns into this clumsy fool. It makes me smile to think that I can make him as flustered as he seems to make me.
Kimberly Lauren
#95. One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes
#96. I think sadness/grief turns off a certain part of your brain... maybe out of necessity... maybe for survival.
Sean Patrick Flanery
#97. Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen.
Drew Brees
#98. I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
Nancy Cartwright
#99. In science, a path that turns out to be a dead end is very useful because you don't devote resources to focusing on that; you go elsewheres.
Michael Bloomberg
#100. A black man, but I feel so blue. So I smoke green and purple to my dreams come true. And my eyes turn red, the sky turns grey.
Ludacris
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