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Quotes About Turn

People are always breaking through, like in the Doors song 'Break on Through (To the Other Side)'. But I really had. I had broken through twice now, and my feeling about the universe was that it was porous and radical and you could turn it on, you could even fuck around with the universe.
~ Miranda July
The aim of science was not meant to turn against every religious belief, but to illuminate the minds of the people.
~ Unknown
The non-Jewish nations were supposed to look at Israel and praise Israel's God. Instead, they looked at Israel and blasphemed his name. The vocation had turned sour.
~ Unknown
Wherever you are in your story, as you turn to the Father, know that He is running toward you. There is always more of the Father's embrace awaiting you, and it can come when you least expect it.
~ Unknown
This monster force would then turn about and return to Europe under Ganteaume's command,
~ Unknown
Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.
~ Unknown
How strangely are things compounded! In a trice may joy turn to sorrow, should one halt long enough over it: in a trice only God can say what ideas may strike one.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Lament not Fortune?s mutability, And seize her fickle favours ere they flee; If others never mourned departed bliss, How should a turn of Fortune come to thee?
~ Omar Khayyam
The love of God and the wrath of God are obverse sides of the same thing, like two sides of a coin. The wrath of God is as positive as His love. God cannot be in agreement with sin. When a man is severed from God, the basis of his moral life is chaos and wrath not because God is angry, like a Moloch; rather it is His constitution of things. The wrath of God abides all the time a man persists in the way that leads away from God; the second he turns, he is faced with His love.
~ Oswald Chambers
Go beyond yourself and away from the faces of your idols and away from everything else that has been blinding your thinking, your imagination. Wake up and accept the ridicule that Isaiah gave to his people, and deliberately turn your thoughts and your eyes to God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation.
~ Oswald Chambers
The first thing I did in program was to draw up a list of things that truly give me longlasting comfort. I turn to that list when I have a craving, and I incorporate those things into my life as often as possible.
~ Unknown
Then suddenly Coyote stopped, turned to me, grabbed me by my hands, looked into my eyes, and said, "Her name is Death.
~ Patricia Briggs
Old, beautiful words – 'From envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness – Good Lord deliver us.' How many of the people who make a glib response have really turned away from the evil in their thoughts before it breaks into word or open deed?
~ Patricia Wentworth
I once again experienced the feeling of anxiety that often overwhelmed me at night and was even more intense than fear—the sensation of being completely on my own, without anyone I could turn to. Not my mother, not anyone. I would have liked him to stay all night, on guard in front of the building, all night long and every night like a sentinel, or even better, watching over me like a guardian angel.
~ Patrick Modiano
Then the high king carefully turned the golden screw. Once: Nothing. Twice: Nothing. Then he turned it the third time, and the boy's ass fell off.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It was too full of love. Nothing could shift it. Nothing could turn it from itself. When all the world was palimpsest, it was a perfect palindrome. Inviolate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
All men press, one way or another," she said with mock severity. "They're still keeping to their book then?" Denna's expression grew rueful and she sighed. "I used to hope they'd disregard the book with age. Instead I've found they've merely turned a page.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You see, I think love comes from God. And so, to turn away from love, real love, it could be argued, is to turn away from God.
~ Unknown
Use state-of-the-heart technology online and offline to turn listeners into viral advocates and customers into raving fans.
~ Peter Guber
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit; he did not turn away from them.
~ 2 Kings 13:2
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
~ 2 Kings 15:9
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, and throughout his reign he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.
~ 2 Kings 15:18
Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saulís kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:
~ 1 Chronicles 12:23