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Quotes About Turning

There were no violins or warning bells when I pulled the janitor's theme off the top of the stack and set it before me, no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
~ Stephen King
Great events turn on small hinges
~ Stephen King
If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The wheel is come full circle.
~ William Shakespeare
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.
~ Emma Donoghue
Ravenpaw's words echoed in his ears. Maybe it's your time now.
~ Erin Hunter
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.
~ beecher henry ward v
but it proved to be a turning point.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.
~ Phil Scott
sat in groups together purging ourselves, theoretically, of anger and self-hatred. We learned not to turn on ourselves. We learned to blame.
~ Gillian Flynn
Im Leben der meisten Menschen gibt es einen Augenblick, in dem man nicht mehr zurück kann.
~ Graham Greene
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
~ Max Brooks
But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those two worlds.
~ Robert Duvall
There's times when one play makes the whole difference, one calls makes the whole difference. And tonight it was that call.
~ Johan Santana
There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.
~ Graham Greene
I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.
~ R. Smith
I forgive them their unhappiness, I forgive them for walking out of the world. But I don't forgive them for turning their faces away, for taking off their veils and dancing for death — for hurtling toward oblivion on the sharp blades of their exquisite poems, saying: this is the way.
~ Mary Oliver
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
~ Mary Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road,    Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on,    And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend    Doth close behind him tread.*  * Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
~ Mary Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn'd round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
~ Mary Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. —COLERIDGE'S ANCIENT MARINER
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley