Quotes About Turning

The word 'catastrophe' is not permitted as long as there is danger of catastrophe turning to doom.

life hinges on small moments and seemingly trivial decisions.

At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

Privately Kate thought that for a guy in a banana-yellow suit he was turning out to be a pretty sharp operator.

Hence one can think of a crisis as a moment of truth: a turning point, when conditions before and after that "moment" are "much more" different from one another than before and after "most" other moments.

Time was my Medusa. Time was turning me to stone.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

It was a girl playing a harp, like in an orchestra. It was in this tree at our campsite. And since it was breezy weather that weekend, the girl's arms were almost always turning.

Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits.

What was?' said Dad. She crinkled her face up, like she was embarrassed. 'Well,' she said. 'I was lying here last night, tossing and turning. Kept getting up to look at her. Kept dropping off to sleep. And the strangest of dreams …' 'And … ?' said Dad. 'And I saw this man, that's all. Another dream, though

It marked in fact the turning of "the Hinge of Fate". It may almost be said, "Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

I don't know if I saw blood before turning into Mother's arms or if I daubed it on later, in my memory, with a brush (Life of Pi 36)

Conversion is a turning back to God, but at the same time a coming to one's self.

But love was also transforming. I knew that from fairy tales. It could turn you back from a cat or a frog or a beast. Probably it could turn you into those things, too.

What if he went and sniffed the flower first? Then he would be the wolf. Then he would have no reason to be afraid. And if he started turning, he could tell them to run and get off the island before he finished transforming. He would know what was happening. He would be experiencing nature.

than that as Bex turned her back and started to take

RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.

Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.

accelerated, turning slightly away

it was clear, if you looked up, that the earth had turned its blue face away from the sun, that it was sweeping down its own dark alley in space

suddenly the sunlight was briefly snipped, as if a page had been turned in front of a lightbulb.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!