Turns Quotes

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.

As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you?

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.

Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

Are you really listening... or are you just waiting for your turn to talk?

I would just turn my back and wouldn't talk to him.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.

We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Even when there’s a straight path in front of us, we, unfortunately, and foolishly, turn right~ around and it’s after that we realize it.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Turnarounds seldom turn.

Radio was supposed to die in 1945, when TV came along. It turns out that radio grew and grew, and it's a bigger business today than it has ever been.

The worst job I ever had was as a forensicologist for the United Nations. One time I thought I'd come across the mass grave of a thousand snowmen, but it turns out it was just a field of carrots.

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want.

Theres a difference between, as I always say, the destination, the end point, and the journey. The journey has a lot of twists and turns. It isnt always pretty.

Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky,It turns and turns to say "Good-by!Good-by, dear clouds, so cool and gray!"Then lightly travels on its way.

Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky?