Turn Away Quotes

#1. To preserve itself, male dominance is obliged to prize competition and central control and to turn away from making adjustments to the constantly shifting, personal needs or the problems that relate to women and their children.

Mavis Haut

#2. You will see, as time goes by", said Ibn Rushd, "that in the end it will be religion that will make men turn away from God. The godly are God's worst advocates.

Salman Rushdie

#3. Help anyway you can and don't turn away from people who help you.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#4. Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we were tempted to turn away, as from an inevitable massacre.

James Fenton

#5. There are a great many people now that are willing to observe what they like about Christ, but the things that they don't like they just dismiss and turn away from.

D.L. Moody

#6. We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away.

Emma Bull

#7. In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.

Heidi Klum

#8. Silly little monster" all would say.
They'd scratch its head and turn away
until it snatched their tiny noses.
They couldn't even smell the roses!
Ever after, every child
dreaded monsters, fierce or mild.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Talk to people about what they want to hear and they'll stay for more.
Talk to them about what you want them to hear and they'll soon turn away.

Nabil N. Jamal

#10. You fill my heart with dark clouds and turn away when my eyes begin to rain.

Jenim Dibie

#11. I turn away from the smell of death, pressing my lavender scented handkerchief as tight as I can against my nose.

Meghan Masterson

#12. The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

Tariq Ramadan

#13. I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

Christina Rossetti

#14. I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.

Pico Iyer

#15. We all miss people. I miss my parents, may they rest in peace. I miss my marriage when it was good. You don't have to stop missing. You just have to accept that missing doesn't mean you turn away your happiness.

Juliette Fay

#16. I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo and if they do not see it they will turn away from us and they will not come back (210)

Cormac McCarthy

#17. I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.

Mary Oliver

#18. And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

Simon Tolkien

#19. My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

Marc Chagall

#20. They were told they were on a holy mission and that their country would remember them. Now people turn away and try to forget the war, especially those who sent us there in the first place.

Svetlana Alexievich

#21. The writer is often faced with two choices
turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.

Chinua Achebe

#22. The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn't look too closely at another person's pain.

Michelle Sagara West

#23. I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty.

Shannon Messenger

#24. I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

#25. The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.

Anonymous

#26. Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

Saint Bernard

#27. All Buddhas and ordinary people are just one mind. This mind is beyond all measurements, names, oppositions: this very being is it; as soon as you stir your mind you turn away from it.

Huangbo Xiyun

#28. Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Alan King

#29. Be brave enough to turn away from shiny objects, and toward the light that makes them shine.

Martha Beck

#30. We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

James MacDonald

#31. I was afraid of the dance once, too. But I learned to embrace it and the mistakes I would make. Do not turn away from your fear. Turn toward love instead.

Holly Lynn Payne

#32. Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life.

Rhonda Byrne

#33. I'm not setting out to adapt books and work with books, but when really amazing stories come to you in that form, it's really hard to turn away from that.

Lenny Abrahamson

#34. It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

Vasily Grossman

#35. Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Wayne Dyer

#36. Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

Sophie Kinsella

#37. Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard.

George W. Bush

#38. Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Jennifer Donnelly

#39. When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#40. Those who cling to worthless idols turn away from God's love for them. 9 But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you.

Anonymous

#41. To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;To bear with fools is mightiest might.

Thiruvalluvar

#42. Faith is a funny thing. It's easy to believe while life is rolling merrily along. But in times of trial, it's tempting to turn away from God. Yet that's when we need him the most.

Irene Hannon

#43. Convince him. I relaxed against his touch and didn't turn away when his mouth met mine.

Mary E. Pearson

#44. Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.

John Welwood

#45. Never bring a knife to a gun fight, I tell Mr. Crispy as I turn away from him. His right arm thinks about it for a moment, then falls off.

Charles Stross

#46. (Pastor Chuck) Smith told his elders in no uncertain terms that if the church had to turn away young people because of bare feet and clothes that they would be better off ripping up the carpet and replacing the pews with steel folding chairs.

Larry Eskridge

#47. Turn away from the ugliness and reunite with beauty. You have to want the beauty of life really bad, and you have to take action and look for it. You have to become a beauty seeker.

Bryant McGill

#48. Mothers cry in anguish
and fathers curse in anger,
while others turn away in sadness,
all for the children who are lost.

Katlyn Charlesworth

#49. There had to have been a moment where they made a conscious decision to turn away before they saw something they didn't want to.

Jodi Picoult

#50. Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame; let the poor and needy praise Your name. Psalm 74:21

Beth Moore

#51. For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.

Barney Frank

#52. You can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

Elie Wiesel

#53. I will rain down silver and gold for you. I will shatter the black night, break it open, and pour out a million stars. Turn away from the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and know that I am here. That I remember and hope. Open your eyes and look at the light.

Jennifer Donnelly

#54. He's my brother. You don't turn away from someone like him just because he likes dick instead of the good stuff." I chuckle. "You certainly haven't lost your way with words.

T.J. Klune

#55. She could not bring herself to turn away from the night sky, for the stars and the blackness were the only escape she had when old faded memories returned to haunt her.

Narayan Liu

#56. I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.

Cathy Guisewite

#57. Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of goodwill, ready to show pity if sorrow appears, and slow to turn away even if hostility appears.

Alexander MacLaren

#58. Brynn began to turn away, but he grabbed her by the arms. "Ah. Ah. No running away. I asked you a question, I expect an answer. How have I played with you? There's no doubt in my mind that I'd remember doing such and I guarantee you would.

Madison Thorne Grey

#59. I move my feet, turn away from her, try to pretend she's not there, which is the biggest fucking joke I've ever not laughed at.

David Levithan

#60. Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Dennis Garvin

#61. I wanted to turn away but I was trapped in that spot
in that moment
by those moon eyes. Because even though I couldn't see them, I could feel them looking at me and they burned me so badly that my legs didn't work.

Autumn Doughton

#62. We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.

Meister Eckhart

#63. Love made me weak. I wished it would go away. Instead, it crushed me under its heel. I let Levvie push me back onto the bed. And when I heard her turn away, love made me beg.
"Please don't go. Don't leave me."
-Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#64. If the knock once and door remain lock, do not turn away. With persistent knocks, the door will be open.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#65. Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

William Butler Yeats

#66. I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

Doug Ose

#67. I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are move forward.

Oprah Winfrey

#68. That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn away from feelings like that.

Anthony Doerr

#69. Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives.

Eric Maisel

#70. The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good.

Dean Koontz

#71. If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation.

Sharon Salzberg

#72. They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son.

T.K. Naliaka

#73. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.

Cassandra Clare

#74. Hunger gnawed at my stomach, but I was afraid someone would be in the kitchen again. So I found myself staring at the front door. Freedom seemed just a doorknob-turn away.
When I did open the door, freedom didn't wait - a half-naked Hayden did.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#75. Sometimes a decade arrives when nations have the chance to turn away from bigotry and selfishness and turn to their countrymen and women and embrace them as loved members of the human family. But do we have the ticker for it?

Bruce Pascoe

#76. It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

Bertrand Russell

#77. It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

Rich Nathan

#78. Ah'm thinking about shoutin 'stop' but ah could never turn away at this point. If smack is as addictive as they say, then ah'm already aw the junky ah'm ever gaunny be.

Irvine Welsh

#79. I think I'm learning
that sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,
but to turn away from it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#80. 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

#81. To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.

Carol Birch

#82. I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.

Stan Sakai

#83. It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

Ralph Nader

#84. God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

John Piper

#85. There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

George Deukmejian

#86. When the audience begins to see the sunrise on that it's hard for them to turn away from it because they're listening to a man talking to them from over a century ago. And nothing has changed. So what are you going to do about that?

Hal Holbrook

#87. The two went at it like nobody was watching. Except someone was watching. Dex was watching. Should he remind them he was still here? Should he have brought some popcorn? Should he turn away?

Charlie Cochet

#88. She stopped over the ledge where he worked and she stood watching him openly. When he raised his head, she did not turn away. Her glance told him that she knew the meaning of her action, but did not respect him enough to conceal it. His glance told her only that he had expected her to come.

Ayn Rand

#89. The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Do not turn away a poor man ... even if all you can give is half a date. If you love the poor and bring them near you ... God will bring you near Him on the Day of Resurrection."

Muhammad Ibn Isa At-Tirmidhi

#90. Fear is strange thing. It has the power to make people close their eyes, turn away. Nothibg good grows out of fear.

Victoria Schwab

#91. I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.

Peg O'Connor

#92. I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

Brian K. Vaughan

#93. Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of impatience and say: "I don't understand

Anais Nin

#94. There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

R. Kelly

#95. It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.

Gabrielle Zevin

#96. Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.

James Taylor

#97. 8 o Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Anonymous

#98. The turn away from the BlackBerry and toward the iPhone is a reckoning with our essential nature and how we currently process, deploy, and enjoy symbolic communication.

Virginia Heffernan

#99. On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

Pope John Paul II

#100. They are our brothers, these freedom fighters ... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong.

Ronald Reagan