Turns Quotes

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

All unlived emotions turn to inanity.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

The idea of hearing, 'Great gig, man,' one more time just turns my stomach over.

Id never choose to turn the clock back.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

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

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.

If you drink enough beer, everything turns in to a bed.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are looking for God with his eyes. I suggest you ask, "What's ultimately behind this set of eyes?" Turn around to see what is looking.

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Doubt always hovers nearby, but I take photographs the way a musician hums. Looking is like breathing. So when luck turns my way and offers me a good picture, joy is surely nigh.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

A bad putter is like a bad apple in a barrel. First, it turns your chipping game sour. Then it begins to eat into your irons and finally it just cleans the head off your driver.

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is his continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

The Bookshop has a thousand books, All colors, hues, and tinges, And every cover is a door That turns on magic hinges.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

If it turns out that Mario doesn't really fit into the type of game I want, I wouldn't mind using Zelda as the basis of the new game.