Turnings Quotes

#1. The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Elizabeth Bear

#2. The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to make many doublings and turnings, and to use some kind of art in endeavouring to avoid our discovery.

Robert Hooke

#3. The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Lord Chesterfield

#4. A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go ...

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#5. If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

Len G. Murray

#6. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one
the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts, ... Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.

C.S. Lewis

#7. The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.

Edith Wharton

#8. ... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...

Jose Saramago

#9. Life is like a road.
With turnings and shortcuts.
Then one day ...
just ends.

Myself

#10. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

Don DeLillo

#11. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Jane Austen

#12. The road to anywhere is the road to nowhere, and the road to nowhere leads to dreams sacrificed, opportunities squandered, and a life unfulfilled. In our journey we will encounter forks and turnings in the road.

Thomas S. Monson

#13. The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.

Carl Jung

#14. Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.

Mary Lee Settle

#15. My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

Steve Miller

#16. Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin ... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings; be able to say, at its most secret actings, 'This is your old way and course; I know what you aim at.'

John Owen

#17. There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#18. But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.

J.D. Salinger

#19. Cannibal, there are outside people which have already eaten a person and have described the taste incrediable... But few of them are in jail!?

Deyth Banger

#20. Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

Orson Scott Card

#21. I make sure I always give Him all the glory and praise, because I know that in one second, one game, one play, it could be all over.

LaDainian Tomlinson

#22. Almost every great achievement began with someone finally getting ticked off, saying, "Enough!" and standing up to fight.

Darren Hardy

#23. And maybe I'm a liar and I do need it, because being kissed by Josh Bennet is kind of like being saved. It's a promise and a memory of the future and a book of better stories.

Katja Millay

#24. You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.

Shelley Winters

#25. I think I'm undergoing a Lyra-2-type paranoia onslaught, but I'll be okay again in a minute.

Brian W. Aldiss

#26. I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

Joseph Heller