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Quotes About Turn

Are you defending me in a premonition where I turned into a she-bitch from hell?" "I'll defend you everywhere.
~ Karen Marie Moning
It's not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.
~ Karen White
Generally, obsessively, licking her wounds. What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The majority of the drinks popular at the turn of the nineteenth century were, by and large, sweeter than they would become over the next twenty years. Something else happened, though, in the last decades of the 1800s. Something momentous. Something that left us with a range of drinks that must now be considered the capos of the cocktail family: Vermouth became popular among the cocktailian bartenders of America.
~ Gary Regan
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
Option one—whirl around
~ Brian Haig
I like the pages to turn. I like the bookness of the book.
~ Brian Selznick
11Since we are those who stand in holy awe of the Lord,h we make it our passion to persuade others to turn to him. We know that our lives are transparent before the God who knows us fully, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences.
~ Brian Simmons
How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.
~ Brock Clarke
tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
~ Herman Melville
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass;
~ Herman Melville
To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.
~ Iain H. Murray
I am uncertain whether our civilization at this turn of the millennium is cursed by too much or too little belief, whether people like Bernard and June cause the trouble, or people like me.
~ Ian Mcewan
Hey, would you look at that shit? I turned on my heel. The patrons who'd fled at the first hint of trouble had come back and were enjoying the spectacle. Clear out! I barked. They paid me no mind. Asshole innocent bystanders.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
~ William Allingham
The more we turn down questionable offers like trip insurance and scrutinize 'one month' trials, the less incentive companies will have to use such schemes.
~ Richard Thaler
I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.
~ Mose Allison
There are days where I turn on the TV or I look at the news and I'm like, "I want to go to Mars. This is insane." But I can't go to Mars! I need to face reality and just to have some hope.
~ Bethany Cosentino
...if the spell was off, I'd have my heart eaten before I could turn around." "Don't you want your heart eaten?" asked the fire. [...] "Naturally I don't," Sophie answered.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The danger in happiness - "Now everything is turning out right for me; from now on i'll love every turn of fate - Who wants to be my fate?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
None the less, you have my leave, if only that you might ensure your spies are made aware of precisely when her spies make their report, so that they in turn may report to you and you may then report to me. Although what I am to do with such knowledge will no doubt escape me, given that the event initiating these flurries of reporting is none other than the one occurring right now in this room.
~ Steven Erikson
For all your fears, love is not something you can forget. But you can turn your back on it.
~ Steven Erikson
When faiths take knife in hand, surely every god must turn away.
~ Steven Erikson
To preach the gospel is to proclaim with trumpet tongue and flaming zeal the unsearchable riches of Christ Jesus, so that men may hear, and understanding, may turn to God with full purpose of heart.30
~ Steven J. Lawson