Turns Quotes

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

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

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

Commercial society regards people as bundles of appetites, a conception that turns human beings inside out, leaving nothing to be regarded as inherently private.

Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

One thing I turn my back on totally is the unsavory atmosphere at most discos.

Of course in Miami, not denouncing Fidel Castro at every turn is almost as bad as saying Gloria Estefan can't sing.

It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be everything [you thought] and more.

I like finding talent. That's what really turns me on, I suppose.

He turns our weaknesses into His opportunities

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

If a woman has one cat, it will invariably turn into 20.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

If you choose to turn your back, you don't really have a say in what goes on behind it.

Turn enemies into friends by doing something nice for them.

O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!

In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.

It doesn't take any longer to improvise 10 takes than it takes to shoot 10 takes of the same thing. It turns out to be just as responsible from a business point of view as anything else.

You can perceive life as tragic, or you can laugh at the tragedy of it and that turns it into comedy. It doesn't change the circumstances.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know?

You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.

I want to go after the pharmaceutical companies like Valeant, and Turns that are increasing prices without any regard to the impact on people's health.

By turns the nine delight to sing

The innocence of virgins is like milk which turns when exposed to a clap of thunder, to a tart smell, to a hot day, to the merest nothing.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

I testify that our teacher, our shepherd, is Christ, our best friend, who clears up all our doubts. He heals our wounds and turns our pain into sweet experiences.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.