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Quotes About Turn

Arnold suffered her stare for a moment, then turned, without rudeness, and cast his eyes about the shelves.
~ Joseph Campbell
Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn't a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we will certainly come out on top again if we succeed in being defeated.
~ Joseph Heller
If anyone could look into my head See or feel the dread that has captured Me or see within this sad, unhappy brain They would only turn away Turn away.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Davis turned his head
~ Ward Larsen
Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning of the "digital turn" that would, in fits and starts, transform music culture . . . .
~ Warren Zanes
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
What I fail to understand is how a civilized world that claims to be so appalled by such brutality can simply turn its back on the victims.
~ Daniel Kalla
Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."
~ Dante Alighieri
Repetition, volume, and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.
~ Dave Ramsey
Tracer lighting up the sky. It's another families' turn to die. A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here. And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore. Only sadness.
~ James Blunt
The brilliant liberal Mark Twain had his number. He called Roosevelt "far and away the worst President we have ever had." Of course, this was before Woodrow Wilson had his turn.
~ James Ostrowski
Because of the various sensory protuberances with which the robot was festooned, it couldn't maneuver inside the towel, and it just twitched back and forth without being able to turn and face its captor.
~ Douglas Adams
Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature and the startling simplicity in the patterns that twist and turn and warp and evolve all around us, from how the world works to how we behave.
~ Hannah Fry
She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run
~ Radiohead
Broad dissemination and individual choice turn most technologies into a plus. If only the elites have access, it's a dystopia.
~ Ramez Naam
Everywhere the same law holds good: 'There is no weapon of your individual will which, once appropriated by others, does not turn against you.' If
~ Raoul Vaneigem
I'd say the real turn in my career came when I did the Dolce & Gabbana International Ad Campaign playing Madonna's son, which was just an incredible experience and I still can't believe actually happened.
~ Max Schneider
Hopefully I can take my chances when I get them.
~ Chris Smalling
Are Chelsea a hard club to turn down? Yes, of course.
~ Gary Cahill
Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.
~ Esther Dyson
It is wonderful but kind of surreal when people turn to me and say they see some kind of an inspiration.
~ Conchita Wurst
Only a genius might have foreseen such a turn; Bovai had a high opinion of his own skills and ability, but stopped short of considering himself a genius.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn't an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.
~ Rebecca Solnit
He was wary of zealots who embraced good causes only to turn other people against them.61
~ Richard Davenport-Hines