Quotes About Turning

I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

There are singular moments in history, dates that divide all that goes before from all that comes after.

It is the growth of consciousness which we must thank for the existence of problems; they are the dubious gift of civilization. It is just man's turning away from instinct—his opposing himself to instinct—that creates consciousness.

There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.

Hay momento que definen nuestra existencia, momentos que, si los reconocemos, suponen un giro definitivo en nuestra vida. Como perlas en un hilo, la acumulación de tales momentos, con el tiempo, constituyen la esencia de nuestra existencia, proporcionándonos consuelo cuando nuestro fin se acerca.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Conversion" expresses the idea better than repentance. "Repentance" suggests primarily sorrow for sin; metanoia suggests a change of mind; the Hebrew idea involves the turning around of the whole person toward God.

Life is always at some turning point.

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

There is no clear sign that the economy is turning the corner in a meaningful way.

Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

My films typically veer towards the darker side, and I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really enjoy working in genre because people come into the film with certain expectations, and they know the tropes so well that when you turn on those, it can be really shocking. There's a complaisance that comes with watching those films.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.

If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.