Top 100 Turn Away Quotes
#1. I hate it when I get mad at myself because it's impossible to turn on my heel and walk away in a huff and refuse to speak to me again. I've tried it plenty of times, believe me.
Gary Reilly
#2. Car-essential is a real turn-off to me, so yeah, I just want a friendly holiday resort with a villa and a pool, but which is really private, but there again, there's a supermarket and a doctor's and a beach a five-minute walk away. That's all I want, and it's quite difficult to find.
Robert Webb
#3. Whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.
Dee Brown
#4. The chaos around him seemed to siphon away his humanity, turn him into an animal.
James Dashner
#5. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#6. I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
Charles Hermite
#7. Wheresoe'er I turn my view,
All is strange, yet nothing new:
Endless labor all along,
Endless labor to be wrong:
Phrase that Time has flung away;
Uncouth words in disarray,
Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,
Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Samuel Johnson
#8. Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#9. I wish I could tell him that we're going through the same thing. I wish I could speak to him like I want to instead of like I'm supposed to. But the idea of admitting that I need help is too much to bear, so I turn away.
Veronica Roth
#10. Celebrate your life now, as it unfolds.
Turn away from judgement and negative theories about your worth, your potential, and your destiny. See what you already have.
Danny Gregory
#11. Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength
or else we die.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#12. I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
Jessica Hahn
#13. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#14. I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a programme and you can't be bothered to even watch it. So I do watch it, but I have to turn away when I'm on screen. It's quite unpleasant seeing myself up there.
Sarah Beeny
#15. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart
Jim Carrey
#16. I expect to find Stern, secreted away in every molecule of air, and at every turn.
Kate Ellison
#17. They are trying to hold on to a world that no longer exists. They are blind and terrified because they feel it slipping away from them. They are gripping thin air but they keep trying desperately to hold on to it - hoping the air will turn into something familiar and solid.
Lillian E. Smith
#19. We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
#20. Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.
Boyd K. Packer
#21. And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.
Kate Williams
#22. We're at war.
On the verge of an apocalypse filled with monsters and torture in a nightmare world.
And I'm standing here, a moonstruck teenager pining for an enemy soldier. What am I, crazy?
This time, I'm the first to turn away.
Susan Ee
#23. I'm not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.
Melika Dannese Lux
#24. Octopus can fish for prey while deciding what color and pattern to turn, what shape to make their bodies, be on alert for predators and aware how far away their dens are.
Sy Montgomery
#25. Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.
Joyce Meyer
#26. Both carried, despite their martial postures, an aura of sorrow, though ghosts of smiles flickered across their faces. They would have recognized one another from a mere turn of the head observed from hundreds of yards away on a moonless night in January.
Robin Oliveira
#27. You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#28. We can always create more inventory. You don't just turn people away. The challenge is finding new ways to accommodate people.
Mark Richardson
#29. I could not turn away from anyone
Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him.
I know well, being mortal, that my claim
Upon the future is no more than yours.
Sophocles
#30. There is absolutely nothing we can ever do that will cause God to forsake us. He will never turn away from us.
Daya Mata
#31. Agonizing really, how enduring love can be. Even after you have packed it up and put it away, it is still there - always there, yellowing around the edges and begging you to turn its pages again.
Tina L. Hook
#32. Yeah, join you. Right. Until you get bored of me and turn me into a Leosicle? Lady, nobody messes with my dragon and gets away with it. I can't believe I thought you were hot.
Rick Riordan
#33. Someone always says, 'Kids are mean.' 'Kids will be kids.' Which implies that the kid bullies will grow out of it someday." The muscles in his jaw tightened. His stare was unfocused and far away. "I don't think they do. I think kid bullies turn into adult bullies.
Michelle Hodkin
#34. Take you picture off the wall
And carry it away
Dye your hair the shades of fall
Don't let time turn it to gray
Don't think of me, I'll be all right
Seems I've always done okay
Just give me one more kiss good night
For the last time, turn away
Emily Ruskovich
#35. I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.
Jackie Kessler
#36. There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
Sylvia Plath
#37. One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
Elie Wiesel
#38. You don't turn your back on love." He went on without missing a beat. "Love isn't easy, not for anyone, but you don't push it away. You hold even tighter.
Cambria Hebert
#39. Turn off the light, she says as she walks away, creating a small woosh that smells sweet and chemical. It makes me sad because it's the smell she makes when she's leaving.
Augusten Burroughs
#40. There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.
Brian Richardson
#41. If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they can
have a great view of your fabulous ass.
Miley Cyrus
#42. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.
A.S. King
#44. If it is peace you seek then you need only turn and walk away. Leave."
"To leave here is to arrive elsewhere. I cannot retreat from disorder, for it shall surely follow. Peace must be asserted where one finds oneself. Only when discord is resolved will there be peace.
Steven Erikson
#45. One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America
and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.
Michael Moore
#46. Smiling, she answered, "You can't mean that! Why there are people who would give an arm and a leg to be a decorated Kobani." She started to turn away but stopped. Looking back she added, "Oh, right... You already did that." She laughed as she walked out.
Stephen W. Bennett
#47. Unless the church is equipping believers to embrace the values and vision of the kingdom of God and turn away from the materialism, consumerism, greed, and power of the present age, it not only abandons its biblical mandate, it is rendered missionally ineffective.
Alan Hirsch
#48. He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Tacitus
#49. Well. You have a secret from me," he said in the end. "No, don't turn away from me. Did you think I would try to press or conjure it out of you? Never that. Friends must be free. My tormenting you to find it would build a worse barrier between us than your hiding it.
C.S. Lewis
#50. The old men shall dream dreams,
The young maids will see visions,
The beast of the forest will turn away,
They will see the child of misery coming,
And make clear the path.
- Song of Venda
Mary E. Pearson
#51. And I wondered if that was the problem with literature - it made sense only in theoretical situations and didn't often help in real life, where it took a hell of a lot more courage to live than to turn pages all alone, hidden away from the world in a corner or a bed or under a tree.
Matthew Quick
#52. Only a fool would turn away the love of a good woman, and I was no longer a fool.
Christin Lovell
#54. Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.
Phillips Brooks
#55. You can't have silence on the radio; people will turn away from the station.
Robert Barry
#56. From things about to disappear I turn away in time. To watch them out of sight, no, I can't do it.
Samuel Beckett
#57. Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, I'm lonely.
Arina Tanemura
#58. Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#59. Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.
Billy Bragg
#60. To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?
Kristin Hannah
#61. All right people, listen up! If you've got a family back home waiting for you or if you just want to save your own skin, turn around and walk away. Also, women! I have no intention of fighting any women!
Hiromu Arakawa
#62. what you put out there and what people take away are two totally separate things. People's minds process things in diverse ways. Everyone lives in different worlds, which is sort of sad but also has potential if you can work out how to turn it to your advantage.
Ann Morgan
#63. The devil will use fear, pride,jealousy, time wasters, hurt, thoughts, disappointments to get us to turn our eyes away from Jesus. Don't give him a moment in your life.
Amanda Penland
#64. When I pull down the wall, I turn off all the colors, I wash them away. And I need color to paint. I want to paint. I need to paint.
Amy Harmon
#65. Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.
Megan Hart
#66. Then her story and the way she told it had touched his heart. That she should have tried to understand - to offer help - and been turned away so often. Oh, he would not turn her away, he would take what she had to give and count himself rich for it.
Ahdaf Soueif
#67. I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.
Mose Allison
#68. I fall in love with someone about twice a week, but I'm starting to think that's a common problem with writers, that they have a dangerous excess of love that they give away to near strangers or turn inward on their private little worlds.
Zach VandeZande
#69. Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.
Eddie Murphy
#70. The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender voices of God, calling away from all earthly footsteps, to mount with greater singleness of eye and ardor of aim the alone ladder of safety and peace upward, onward, heavenward, homeward.
John Ross Macduff
#71. If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
Jeanette Winterson
#72. Paul said in the second epistle ... the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine ... they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.
Jan Karon
#73. Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.
Sophocles
#75. The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing
Jay Woodman
#76. True friends never turn you away when all you need is someone to talk to. Ever. It's not the only thing that helps, but it's the only thing that works. Real friends never walk away, letting you slip deeper into the pit of despair.
Northern Adams
#77. There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly ... Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.
Johnny Mercer
#78. Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie, and I'm sorry. At this point, people must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?'
Jason Biggs
#79. pay attention to that little voice inside your head that sends you prompts, insights, and hunches. Note things that you don't understand, and rather than shying away from them, turn them into questions to pursue.
Todd Henry
#80. Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
Jeff Buckley
#81. She attempted to turn again; I held on. I wasn't holding tight enough to keep her, but she wasn't pulling hard enough to get away.
Maggie Stiefvater
#82. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public's mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media.
Daniel Kahneman
#83. Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.
R. J. Reynolds
#84. For a shy girl unused to men, it is easier to hurl the moon from the sky than it is to turn away from a man who truly wishes to pursue her.
Simone St. James
#85. Each of us each day, each moment, has a choice: give ourselves and others a second chance or turn away.
Holly Elissa Bruno
#86. Now it's going to turn into the biggest media blitz since the Pope's divorce.
Dani Kollin
#87. PEOPLE CAN LOVE in different ways," I told David. "You can love full-on, with a lot of noise, or you can do it quietly, over the washing-up. You can even love a person without them knowing." I was careful to turn away.
Rachel Joyce
#88. When Jesus tells us about his Father, we distrust him. When he shows us his Home, we turn away, but when he confides to us that he is 'acquainted with Grief', we listen, for that also is an Acquaintance of our own.
Emily Dickinson
#89. And then you discover what you should have known all along: that it takes only one bad day to turn your life upside down. That there's nothing you can have, nothing you've earned, nothing you've paid for with blood and loss and suffering ... that the world can't take away from you.
Simon R. Green
#90. Some men turn away from all this cheap emotion with a kind of heroic despair ... But this too can be an error. For if our emotions really die in the desert, our humanity dies with them.
Thomas Merton
#91. She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.
Ann Rule
#92. Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.
Mary E. Pearson
#93. My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
Kim Wilde
#94. If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.
George Clooney
#95. The cross guarantees that even in your darkest moment God will never turn in disgust and walk away. There is no rebellion, no weakness, no foolishness, no evil of heart that the cross can't defeat and grace can't transform.
Paul David Tripp
#96. Yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.
Edmund Blair Bolles
#97. If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days
listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
Anne Lamott
#98. For though our eyes, in what direction soever they turn, are forced to behold the works of God, we see how fleeting our attention is, and holy quickly pious thoughts, if any arise, vanish away.
John Calvin
#99. To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,
they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#100. When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.
Dezso Kosztolanyi
