Turns Out Quotes

#1. None of us knows anything. We think we know, then it turns out that we don't. The universe has a way of intervening. Of changing you. In the end, you don't know what you're seeking, and you don't know what you'll find.

Tammy Kling

#2. It turns out that knowing how loved we are by God makes all the difference in the kind of people we will become.

Jonathan Martin

#3. It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

Frankie Boyle

#4. Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Rob Bell

#5. It turns out that you don't end up with the people you love; by definition, you end up with the ones who stay.

Andrew Sean Greer

#6. Sometimes I feel like I'm making a connection with a stranger, but then it turns out I'm not. Like, I was in a mall, and I saw this lady hitting her kid. So I went up to her, and I was like, "Yeah, get him!" She got all mad at me. I was like, "I'm on your side here."

Demetri Martin

#7. It turns out that we're not the only ones who go out on a scientific limb as we discuss or attempt to discuss cars, car repairs and scientific education in America today.

Tom Magliozzi

#8. Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person's mind.

Anonymous

#9. It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!

Emil Cioran

#10. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

James P. Hogan

#11. Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

J. Budziszewski

#12. People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep.

Athan Fletcher

#13. So much could go wrong on a date. What if he turns out to be a jerk? [You need] A back-up plan, just in case he doesn't work out, you can move on to the back-up plan.

Taraji P. Henson

#14. He created a craving. And that craving, it turns out, is what makes cues and rewards work. That craving is what powers the habit loop.

Charles Duhigg

#15. Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together.

Lucy Calkins

#16. I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

Joan Didion

#17. I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!

Blake Lively

#18. I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.

Jay Leno

#19. I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Jerry Spinelli

#20. Part of the heartache of all missionary work is the bright promising convert who turns out to be a mere puffball, crumbling like a macaroon under the least pressure.

Isobel Miller Kuhn

#21. If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.

John Green

#22. I didn't know this before, but as it turns out, Tyrannosaurs can really haul ass.

Jim Butcher

#23. On the subatomic level, however, this universe of separate objects turns out to be a complete illusion. In the realm of the super-super-small, every object in the physical universe is intimately connected with every other object.

Eben Alexander

#24. Why can't I have a normal girlfriend?" he asked the air over his head. "I finally meet someone I like and she turns out to be crazy.

Lili St. Crow

#25. What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

Chuck Palahniuk

#26. No matter how this turns out, you've already seen the treasure we all search a lifetime for. You've got the whole rest of your life to be grateful for that.

Dan Skinner

#27. I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.

Tom Cruise

#28. I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.

Jim Pattison

#29. Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.

Kathryn Orford

#30. As it turns out, Plutarch, consciously or unconsciously, touched on a truth that most of us feel, but rarely meditate upon: the little things in behaviour are the door not only to the real character of people but also to their soul.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#31. Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.

Charles F. Glassman

#32. In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons.

Erica Jong

#33. When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

William Hague

#34. In investing, we intuitively think we should make a number of small bets. A blockbuster strategy is the opposite. It means making fewer huge investments. But it turns out to be safer.

Anita Elberse

#35. Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

Alice Hoffman

#36. More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

Jay Leno

#37. Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

Brian Doyle

#38. Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#39. Ast year's Best-Sex-Scene-in-a-film winner Vince Voyeur's real name turns out to be John LaForme. Rhetorical Q.: How, if one's real name was John LaForme, could that person possibly feel the need for a nom de guerre?

David Foster Wallace

#40. I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.

John Green

#41. But as it turns out, love doesn't set us free - love keeps standing outside the jail on an endless candlelight vigil. So love? Yes, love was pain as well. Especially love.

Adrian Barnes

#42. A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Jim Bouton

#43. It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

Gregory Benford

#44. Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

#45. I was so afraid that I'd never be able to love anyone, and here I was, holding a child I desperately wanted to call my own and upstairs was a woman I would give my life for.
Turns out I was always capable of love, I just hadn't found it yet.

J.L. Berg

#46. The big damages come if the climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases turns out to be high causing greater global warming than current projections. Then it's not a bullet headed at us, but a thermonuclear warhead.

Raymond Pierrehumbert

#47. It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

Dan Barker

#48. I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

John Chancellor

#49. It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

Kiera Cass

#50. We all serve one master, and I've come to learn that it rarely turns out to be the one we were counting on.

Greg F. Gifune

#51. It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.

Nick Turse

#52. It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs.

Matt Mullenweg

#53. In the absence of any concrete evidence. I plump for Leonard Stock as the murderer. First, because he's the most unlikely person, and as anyone who has ever read a murder story knows, it's always the most unlikely person who turns out to have done the deed--and fifty thousand authors can't be wrong.

M.M. Kaye

#54. Here is individual responsibility and the invention of conscience. You can if you will but it is up to you. This little story(from the Bible)turns out to be one of the most profound in the world. I always felt it was,but now I know it is.

John Steinbeck

#55. I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love ... Even if it turns out not to be real.

Jennifer Egan

#56. I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophobic or woman hating either, so you might not notice

Robin Ince

#57. My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Stephen King

#58. Turns out brain injuries are hard to live with." He paused. "Or even just be around. People don't like when they're lives are upended by something they can't see." Caden

Tijan

#59. One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.

Bret McKenzie

#60. If I think she' hot and it turns out she's a psychopath, then what does that say about me? I'm totally not ready for that kind of therapy.

Barry Lyga

#61. I go to bed with horror on my wings. In my pillow is sad comforts. Like my mother says, 'On essaye a s'y prendre, pi sa travaille pas' (We try to manage, and it turns out shit).

Jack Kerouac

#62. We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

James Levine

#63. A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.

Stephen Richards

#64. Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.

Jenna Evans Welch

#65. Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.

Stephen Kinzer

#66. It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.

Gloria Steinem

#67. Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.

Ramez Naam

#68. True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

John Ortberg

#69. I couldn't find a decent threesome guidebook at the library, so I started scouring the Internet, reading biographies, and asking lots of people lots of questions. As it turns out, America is full of trisexuals eager to tell their stories.

Victoria Vantoch

#70. Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.

Grace Paley

#71. It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.

Andrea Hirata

#72. One year later, I grew out of my clothes because, it turns out, growing fourteen inches in a summer is easy. It's growing out of a label that's hard. Which

Jennifer Niven

#73. Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

Oliver

#74. All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

Ludwig Von Mises

#75. I sometimes think I prefer suitors in books rather than right in front of me. How awful, backward, cowardly, and mentally warped that will be if it turns out to be true.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#76. Turns out I'm only 'mom-special'. Special like a snowflake is special. Special like a school kid on honor roll.

Eliza Crewe

#77. That's what people do when they're in love. They make crazy decisions. They do what they think is best, and sometimes it turns out to be a mistake.

Dan Krokos

#78. Actually, no, I wasn't thinking about STDs. Because apparently, I'm an idiot. Turns out, I was more worried about babies than I was rabies.

Addison Moore

#79. It turns out nudity is not a problem for me. It's one of those things you think about later and say, 'Yeah, I could do this for a living.'

Winter Ave Zoli

#80. It turns out it takes 30 years for a new idea to seep into the culture. Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.

Paul Saffo

#81. It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.

Emil Cioran

#82. It turns out that home is not mostly a place. Home is someone putting her arms around you and saying the words your heart longs to hear: always and everywhere.

Anne Nesbet

#83. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.

Susanna Kaysen

#84. Turns out, Down syndrome is the most common genetic disorder, occurring once in every 800 births, and no one really knows why it happens. It just does.

John C. McGinley

#85. The real challenge of being a flight attendant is getting people out. The training requires that they demonstrate they can evacuate an aircraft within 90 seconds, but of course, a lot of stuff that is easy to do in training turns out to be tough in practice.

Philip Greenspun

#86. So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War.

Ann Coulter

#87. It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

Michio Kaku

#88. I am not, as it turns out, incapable of changing myself or my life. I am not, as it turns out, worthless. I am, in fact, one seriously badass Witch who holds in her hands the power to change the world.

Dianne Sylvan

#89. After a piece ran, a guy claimed I claimed I was from CNN. I never said that. But if you make a man comedically look like Hitler and it turns out that he is a retired lawyer with a lot of time on his hands, you're going to get sued. That's the lesson for today, children. STEVE

Chris Smith

#90. It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

Jodi Picoult

#91. Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.

Kirsten Hubbard

#92. Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this.
He turns out the light.
BLACKOUT

Harold Pinter

#93. I love you so much," I said, closing the distance between us and wrapping myself around him. "No matter what happens, no matter how this war turns out - I love you, forever and always.

Aimee Carter

#94. How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing ... If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell. then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything ...

Blaise Pascal

#95. Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don't make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

Al Yankovic

#96. Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include ... well, EVERYTHING.

George Saunders

#97. The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Geoff Mulgan

#98. It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me.

Nicole Scherzinger

#99. Unlike high tax rates, you can't repeal totalitarianism if it turns out to be a mistake.

Anonymous

#100. A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Karen Joy Fowler