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Quotes About Turn

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
~ Larry King
Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace. If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.
~ Roderick Beaton
Mastery is an enabling condition for originality, which in turn, is a generative condition for mastery. The modes are interdependent.
~ Roger L. Martin
It was funny, she was thinking, how something that had seemed sentimental and important, and even more - almost sacred - could turn into nothing at all
~ Rona Jaffe
The pitchman must make you applaud and take out your money. He must be able to execute what in pitchman's parlance is called "the turn" — the perilous, crucial moment where he goes from entertainer to businessman.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Opportunities don't make U turns.
~ James J-Pierre
He turned off the freeway onto a wide commercial drive of franchised food and failing business. The
~ Amy Hempel
If you don't take a chance, someone else will give you his luck. And if you get bad luck, then you need to take another chance to turn things from bad to good.
~ Amy Tan
Too much mind, though, Henry! I do not like Goethe's complete transference into ideas. I do not like his second metamorphosis. That is not for you. You must, like me, turn it on and off.
~ Anais Nin
Fate, that glockenspiel, will turn upon the hour.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose The World Turned Upside Down.
~ Sarah Vowell
You have to tell this ship to turn around!" He had a feeling she was serious, so he managed not to laugh. Well,he tried-and failed. "I'm sure the 'ship' won't listen to reason. No,really,I'm positive it won't." "You know what I mean!" she shrieked at him.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because, where perspicacity is weakened, the most benevolent piece of advice can turn out badly.
~ John Brooks
We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere." "Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.
~ John Connolly
The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.
~ John Donne
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.
~ Debra Hamel
A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.
~ Anita Shreve
When Dodsworth was released, in September 1936, just two months after the trial ended, Mary's performance together with that film's emotional ending would win her forgiveness and new admirers, and mark a turn in her career.
~ Edward Sorel
But I felt that things were taking a turn for the worse, and I was frightened. Having to stay alert in order to avoid mistakes and confront dangers had exhausted me to the point where sometimes simply the urgency of doing something made me think that I really had done it.
~ Elena Ferrante
Who gives his life to duty Will hardships ever find, And many, many crosses, And roads that devious wind. Awaiting him seems Pleasure At every turn of road; But Duty stands as sentinel, With lash and whip to goad.
~ ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.
~ Jon Jones
Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk