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Quotes About Turning

I turned around on the Button Couch, estimating the tension had reached a level that could no longer justify complete privacy.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Never Let Me Go
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Time is many things, her father told her. Time is a circle, and time is a great turning gear that cannot be stopped, and time is a river that carries away what you love.
~ Kelly Link
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
~ Ted Cruz
The linearist view of technology fails to appreciate the dangers a new turning can bring. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is now predicting that everyone will soon tune in to a world of unlimited options via high-tech portable devices. What he nowhere mentions is that by merely reversing a few circuits the same technology could empower a central authority to monitor what every individual is doing.
~ William Strauss
Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions.
~ Yahia Lababidi
metaphor have something in common with, for example, the paintings of M.C.Esher, or the Rorshach blot, both of which are famously indecipherable or, at least, irreducible to a single interpretation: they can never fully reveal their own meanings because they are perennially on the point of turning into their other.
~ David Punter
The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.
~ David Wong
the country sat at a defining crossroads, ready to veer in one direction, but just as able to choose another, it
~ Jay Winik
The inward turning to Him is easy, natural and effortless, because He is at your centre. He is drawing you.
~ Jeanne Guyon
Names and knowledge change, the way the turning world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.
~ Jeannine Atkins
I threw up twice more during the process, turning away so that I wouldn't vomit right on him, a courtesy I couldn't quite explain.
~ Jeff Strand
Whatever happened, January would mark the point of no return.
~ Alfred Lansing
no turning back each drop is a snap decision a suicide from the tower-block of heaven
~ Alice Oswald
the engineer, and of his fireman turning
~ Alistair MacLean
Folks, the trajectory we were on prior to the virus was taking us towards destruction. God has intervened. He's given us a chance for some personal evaluations, some individual reflection to turn our hearts and our faces to Him.
~ Allen Jackson
You never know when the tables will turn, so I think we should all just be kind to one another. It's really as simple as that.
~ Vick Hope
Martin Luther declares that the life of the Christian should be one of daily repentance. Daily we confess, daily we repent, daily we "turn, turn, 'til we turn 'round right." The Prayer of Tears is the primary aid to our turning.
~ Richard J. Foster
The only car in sight was just turning into Chavez Ravine Road and traveling fast. All I could see was the taillight
~ Richard S. Prather
Nichols Canyon Road winds up into the hills north of Hollywood, twisting and turning like a tortured snake, and the occasional houses perch on the tops of
~ Richard S. Prather
sesuatu yang terjadi dalam beberapa hari, kadang-kadang bahkan dalam sehari, bisa mengubah keseluruhan jalan hidup seseorang.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Still as ruggedly handsome, he said without turning around, as I was the last time you saw me, Valkyrie.
~ Kresley Cole
And what do you know about my turning? I asked around when I figured out I was your . . . mate. He stood, crossing to her. Well, let's hear it. Basically, you'll lose your mind, turning animalistic, hunting me down until you claim me repeatedly, biting my neck and marking me as your possession. Nothing will stop you—no cage can hold you. Did I miss anything? Aye, Lousha. His gaze raked her over and his voice deepened. The fact that you're going to like it.
~ Kresley Cole
R shook his head, scratched it. From the rear his head looks like it has a little square suitcase attached to it. (It reminds me of an old painting called "In the Carriage".) ... I looked at that tightly locked little suitcase of his and wondered, "What thoughts are turning over now in that case?
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin