Top 100 Turn Quotes
#1. Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.
Penelope J. Stokes
#2. The cards always look different when it's your turn to play them; loaded with subtly different possibilities.
Alastair Reynolds
#3. 'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.
Peter Guber
#4. Has anybody here ever been driving along in their car, smoking a cigarette, and you flick it out the window, and you drive for a few miles, and you start to smell smoke, and you turn around, and you look in the backseat, and grandma is playing with herself?
Doug Benson
#5. I had sent [the magazine] a batch of poems which they turned down flat. I was furious. Floss [my wife] said, 'If I were the editor of that magazine *I* would turn down what *you* sent.' So *she* picked a batch and they accepted them *all*.
William Carlos Williams
#6. A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
Chuck Mangione
#7. If there is a necessary talks, do not turn into businesses because pocket where business started.
Deh Gel
#8. The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
Arnold Bennett
#9. The way I've been brought up to is take critiques and turn them into positives in my game.
Alex Morgan
#10. The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer
#11. I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
Bailey Chase
#12. I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)
Jack London
#13. Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,And Thy pierced feet I clasp;Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;On me, with compassion fraught,Let Thy glances fall.Thy cross of agony,My Beloved, look on me;Turn me wholly unto Thee;"Be thou whole," say openly:"I forgive thee all.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#14. The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
Jeremy Bentham
#15. Turn bad thoughts into concrete so you can build a strong foundation.
Antonia Perdu
#16. I ask is there anything with a little kick to drink. And this old lady says to me, We don't approve of alcohol. And I says, Well, ma'am, we need to remember Jesus did turn water to wine. And she says, And we're none too crazy about that stunt, neither.
Smith Henderson
#17. What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all.
D.R. Silva
#18. It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
Andrei Codrescu
#19. Tony's patois kept getting broader as we talked. Like Hawk, he seemed able to turn it on and off. "Sho 'nuff," he said.
Robert B. Parker
#20. Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#21. Life's experiences should turn into real understanding.
Samael Aun Weor
#22. Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
Carl Andre
#23. We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off.
Nicholas Kristof
#24. [To] Immediately ... turn to our spirit and exercise our spirit to contact God ... practically means that we do not trust in ourselves but in God.
Witness Lee
#25. A young mark twain on the make: I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.
H.W. Brands
#26. Life is full of good-byes...Dont expect to turn around once you leave I wont be around.
Ann O'M. Bowman
#27. Her gaze feasted on his cock, which was a turn on in itself. "There's nothing tiny about you, is there?
Vonnie Davis
#28. If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.
Maya Angelou
#29. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.
Ford Madox Ford
#30. He knows as soon as he turns onto their walk that she's gone. But he doesn't turn back. He doesn't regret a single day they spent together, including this one.
Rainbow Rowell
#31. You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
Laura Prepon
#32. The second reason I decided to get ECT is that I was depressed. Profoundly depressed. Part of this could be attributed to my mood disorder, which was, no doubt, probably the source of the emotional intensity. That's what can take simple sadness and turn it into sadness squared.
Carrie Fisher
#33. Anna seems warmer every time I meet her, thinks Lou. Funny, that. Some people, who seem friendly on first impression, turn out to be disappointingly superficial, whereas the aloof ones, like Anna, emerge as affectionate and loyal.
Sarah Rayner
#34. Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller
#35. If, in our world, there is any chance of becoming the person you haven't yet become ... will I know how to seize that chance, turn my life into a garden that will be completely different from my forebears'?
Muriel Barbery
#36. Implementing good relationship habits consistently over time elicits good relationships which in turn feed our thoughts about our own self-worth and capabilities.
Sam Owen
#37. We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
#38. Henry would turn into a mud puddle of despair if you died. And then who would beat me in chess? No one at all.
Emma Clifton
#39. I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be.
Romeo Dallaire
#41. When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
Carl Hiaasen
#42. Dad: someone who hopes his son will turn out just like him,
and who is afraid his daughters will meet someone who did.
John Walter Bratton
#43. The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.
David Wright
#44. Most modern stuff I hear kinda sucks, someone should turn me onto something good, fast!
Jim Diamond
#45. Let it be said by our children's children thta when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried frth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.
Barack Obama
#46. I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
Grover Cleveland
#47. A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.
Anna Quindlen
#48. Last night I fell asleep quickly, into a place beyond sleep, deep and silent, the place I imagine caterpillars go to turn into butterflies.
Sarah Willis
#49. Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all.
George Rodrigue
#50. Kate had attended a Presbyterian church with her family in Norfolk; she'd heard how the God of Moses could flip out and go pretty damn nuts when things didn't turn out His way.
Chet Williamson
#51. I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.
Bow Wow
#52. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.
Charles Bukowski
#53. Nothing . . . no woman . . . no piece of ass or fake boob thrust in my face will ever turn my eye away from you. Nothing and no one will ever come close to making me feel the way I do just when I'm holding your hand, or listening to you breathe at night. Nothing compares.
Anonymous
#54. 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
#55. Alright ... what do you want me to say? Do you want me to say it's funny, so you can contradict me and say it's sad? Or do you want me to say it's sad so you can turn around and say no, it's funny. You can play that damn little game any way you want to, you know!
Edward Albee
#56. Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.
David Levithan
#57. We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
Allan Bloom
#58. When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.
Neil Gaiman
#59. Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.
Tanith Lee
#60. You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
#61. I feel most people's sexuality is enormously complicated. That's what it means to be human. Wouldn't it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn't it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?
Janet Jackson
#62. They won't turn away a father who has come to find his son.
T.K. Naliaka
#63. All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from nonviolence you turn nonviolence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
Jean Goss
#64. I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
Adele
#65. Get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet!
ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!
Margaret Weis
#66. It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.
Gia Coppola
#67. Even though everybody hates you, you'll always have a friend who protects you and wishes to uplift you from pain, misery and suffering and that will always turn and remain the hardest blow to those who hate you.
Auliq Ice
#68. You were indeed called to be free, brothers and sisters. Don't turn this freedom into an excuse for your corrupt nature to express itself. Rather, serve each other through love. Galatians 5:13
Dianne Neal Matthews
#69. We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.
Ron Kovic
#70. The word "missing" is particularly cruel, leaving as it does a ray of hope that the person will turn up safe and well, even in the most doomed circumstances. As days go by, it becomes increasingly unlikely and yet and yet ...
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
#71. We recognize the distinctness of Asian art when we turn to its traditional forms, recognize it as Japanese, Chinese and Indian, even Balinese or Thai.
F. Sionil Jose
#72. If the light is great in front of you, you should turn around and see what it is doing behind you.
Jay Maisel
#73. I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
Phil Collins
#74. I'm prepared to take risks. And every movie that I do is a risk. No one knows what the movie is going out turn out like.
Jason Statham
#75. The greatest power of freedom is to overcome hatred and violence, and turn the creative gifts of men and women to the pursuits of peace.
George W. Bush
#76. Love is 100% percent practical, oral performance is an ultimate turn-off, whether you like it or not.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#77. Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.
Mira Nair
#78. Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#79. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#80. When you do a good turn you feel rich, even if you are broke.
Lionel Blue
#81. I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#82. I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#83. Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.
Jane Levy
#84. You read yourself full, you pray yourself hot, and then you turn yourself loose.
Timothy B. Tyson
#85. It rains on the just and the unjust. Nothing you can do but turn your collar up.
M.R. Carey
#86. If you treat them like children, then get ready for your company to turn into one big Barney episode.
Ben Horowitz
#87. If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"
Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.
Joel N. Ross
#88. He focused his mind on other things so his pecker would behave and not turn any harder than it already was. Things like pruning bushes, and weeding the vegetable garden, and planting his cock deep inside her. "No, No, not that, I mustna dwell on that.
Vonnie Davis
#89. 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
#90. When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.
Truman Capote
#91. But I guessed that no matter how strong it was, love alone couldn't turn a speck of dust into a galaxy of stars.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#92. The point is to turn your grief into love. The roses are helping you find grace.
Holly Lynn Payne
#93. Time, which is so often an enemy in life, can also become our ally if we see how a pale moment can lead to a glowing moment, and then turn to a moment of perfect transparency, before dropping again to a moment of everyday simplicity.
Peter Brook
#94. you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain.
Peter Watts
#95. Enlightenment is not about being political. It is not a social club. Ashrams often turn into that, I know. Societies of enlightenment often just become cliques.
Frederick Lenz
#96. But I always wondered, if she could turn her feelings off like a switch, how much was she hiding from us? It had made her seem mysterious. Which is stupid. She wasn't mysterious; she was depressed.
Chelsea Sedoti
#97. Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.
Oren Lyons
#98. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight
Augustus Hopkins Strong
#99. I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.
Augusten Burroughs
#100. Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
Elton John
