Quotes About Turning

However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.

My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

As I have been saying for more than a year now, turning this vital mission over to the Iraqi people as soon as possible should remain a topic of debate for Congress while relying on our military commanders to set up the timetable.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. ANNIE DILLARD, HOLY THE FIRM  

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times. ANNIE DILLARD, HOLY THE FIRM

It wasn't too late to turn around, before I got to the place I couldn't come back from.

Vegetarianism is the first turning away from life, because life lives on lives. Vegetarians are just eating something that can't run away.

The poet Yeats felt we were living in the last of a great Christian cycle. His poem "The Second Coming" says, "Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

As if they were anything more than debilitating stories that turned everything into moments of reprise that disabled and disarmed.

Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

Conversion meant a conscious turning away from the old way of life.

I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receeding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

Sometimes it boils down to a move or two and that makes all the difference.

It was like a storybook: her life was being written for her. She did not have to write it, only just to read it. The pages were being turned for her, too

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

Se volteo para mirar justo en el momento en que comenzaba a llover, como si la tormenta hubiese decido finalmente echarse a llorar de vergüenza por lo que les había echo.

Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. This is so surreal, she says, I think I'm turning into a melting clock.

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

If you go out and practice super hard and then you go play in the game, it's going to be a lot more natural for you. You'll be able to catch the ball and think fast and start making plays, making people miss and turning it into the next phase of the play rather than just catching the ball and being surprised and happy that you caught the ball.

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.

It was a hot day and the Ferris wheel was turning in the air like a thermometer bent in a circle and given the grace of music.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?