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Quotes About Turning

I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible. She was little more than dark on dark, a body shape, as I remember it. If only she would spin round on her heels and the moonlight would oblige, I could persuade myself she's real and not a spectre summoned up by loneliness.
~ Jim Crace
Only turning God's house into a house of fervent prayer will reverse the power of evil so evident in the world today.
~ Jim Cymbala
Meu cavalo era bom, eu tinha dinheiro na algibeira, eu estava bem armado. Virei, vagaroso.
~ João Guimarães Rosa
Open your mouth," Liam told me. I shook my head. He pushed forward into me again, and his dick felt even bigger and harder now. Holy shit, this was turning him on. Kidnapping girls turns him on. Fuck. FUCK. "Open. Your. Mouth," he said again, and this time the menace in his voice was unmistakable. His prick nudged me again, and then his hips, shifting, sliding it slowly up the crack of my ass. I felt a whole new level of fear. Who is this man?
~ Joanna Wylde
I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness, Men into things, not killing humane senses. You've been turned in to my reminiscences To make eternal the unearthly sadness.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I grew, and then there were many strange apparitions, the nagging rain, the sun turning into poison and all of that.
~ Anne Sexton
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
~ Euripides
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away. (2)
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Désolé et furieux, encore amoureux d'elle, j'ai tourné le dos.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lenin is supposed to have once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.
~ Fareed Zakaria
mihotoke ni / shini mukeoreba / tsuki suzushi4 I've turned my back On Buddha How cool the moon!
~ Faubion Bowers
Danger cups us under its hand, and we can do nothing but stand witness to the turning of the world. Here we walk on the balancing line between futures. Humanity always believes it decides the fate of the whole world, and so it does, but never in the moment that it thinks it does.
~ Robin Hobb
She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.
~ Lisa Unger
The world spun around and he spun around too.
~ Louis Sachar
Funny,' said Harriet to herself. 'The world goes on turning, and it has all these troubles in it.
~ Rumer Godden
I could already hear the music inside, the murmur of people, kids I'd gone to school with for the last twelve years, dressed up and pretending to be the adults we'd all eventually turn into, whether we wanted to or not.
~ Joe Schreiber
To turn away from the great questions and dilemmas of life is a tragedy, for the quest for meaning and truth makes life worth living.
~ Charles Colson
These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.
~ Rebecca Harding Davis
Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep.
~ Brad Meltzer
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
~ Anonymous
It was rapture, the oldest feeling, a sensation like rising from the thick canopy of forest and turning, looking out over the treetops, seeing the world again, for the first time.
~ Anthony Doerr
I don't like bowling on turning wickets because on turning wickets, most balls would just beat the batsmen. On flat wickets you can plan - when to bowl sliders, when to bowl googly.
~ Yuzvendra Chahal
Turning cash flows from contracts of professional athletes into securities is now possible through the power of blockchain.
~ Spencer Dinwiddie