Quotes About Turn

In the election of 2016, evangelical politics took a disastrous turn in its overwhelming support for Donald Trump—including 81 percent of the voters who identified as evangelical,

Snap. Ka-chunk. That's how I spell the sound of a doorknob turning.

Education is the light switch for the mind. You have to turn it on to see the world in your own way.

Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.

The first time a head turned up by itself on the street in Acapulco, it was a big deal.

Cinema is capitalism in its purest form.... There is only one solution — turn one's back on American cinema.

Isn't life funny. It could drive you crazy if you thought about it too much. Turn this way and that happens. Turn that way and this happens.

The only thing to do with one's old sorrows is to tuck them up neatly in their shroud and turn one's face away from their grave towards what is coming next.

It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very unfortunate turn. Seconds later, Angus was pulling his shot far to the right, shooting a large hole in the second-story galley not ten feet above Marcus's head.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

The mother of chaos was fear, not evil, and the enjoyment of chaos was the continual fear of the unknown, the shifting foundation of everything, the knowledge that every twist and turn could lead to disaster.

Consider the hairpin turn. It is waiting for you like a red door

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

Oh," he said to Kiyo, voice completely devoid of emotion. "I see. It's your turn again.

We came here for a quiet, small, informal meeting—strictly business. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants and there's no two ways about it.

Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., the summer I turned

good luck is more dangerous than bad luck. Bad luck teaches valuable lessons about patience, timing, and the need to be prepared for the worst; good luck deludes you into the opposite lesson, making you think your brilliance will carry you through. Your fortune will inevitably turn, and when it does you will be completely unprepared.

Actually," I said, hesitant to bring it up, "I was thinking along the lines of a curse that can turn you human." "Or witch?" Ivy said, surprising me. There was a soft vulnerability in her and I blinked. "You don't want to be a witch," I said quickly. "Why not? You are.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive."—C. S. LEWIS

He's watching ya, Dr. Tate," Elspeth whispered, looking over her shoulder. "Aren't ya gonna turn around and wave?" "A man enjoys the chase, Elspeth. It's how God made them. We mustn't spoil all his fun by making it too easy.

As minstrelsy and spirituals were succeeded by the new musical forms of the turn of the century, increasing numbers of white people began to join Twain and respond to African American life by seeing the intellectual shackles in their own lives and learning the lessons that those at the bottom of the social pyramid had to offer.

We may need to focus here.' 'Right. Yes. OK. Turn around.' 'Are you going to throw something at me?' 'What? No, I'm getting out of bed.