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Quotes About Turning

It may either bounce back after touching the level or breaking it and turning the resistance into a support level.
~ Frank Miller
The great wooden doors screamed open on their pivots - yet not so loudly did they scream as the man who lay with one of the pivots turning in his eye as punishment for the evil he had done upon earth.
~ Roger Lancelyn Green
We are interested in finding the right customer, at the right price, consistent with our purpose and values, even if that means frequently turning away customers.
~ Ronald J. Baker
Ainsi tourne le monde à travers la nuit énormément menaçante et silencieuse.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Here, don't forget your bells." Elvi grimaced as she took the anklet laced with bells. They'd been a gift from Mabel right after her turning. She'd claimed she thought they were charming, but Elvi knew the truth was they kept her from sneaking up on the other woman and startling her. Mabel had never admitted it
~ Lynsay Sands
And let each failure and shortcoming simply urge us to turn humbly and meekly to the meek and lowly Lamb of God, in the assurance that where He is enthroned in the heart, His humility and gentleness will be one of the streams of living water that flow from within us.
~ Andrew Murray
Self turned to God is the glory of allowing the Creator to reveal Himself in us. Self turned away from God is the very darkness and fire of hell.
~ Andrew Murray
Back then, these journeys all seemed as random as the stars in the sky; only now can he see the zodiac turning above his life. Here, rising, comes the Scorpion.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Nothing is gained and much is lost when a life spirals into idolatry—no matter how much creative image bearing may also be preserved by the mysterious workings of common grace. Had Jobs been able to turn from his more extreme forms of god playing, his life might have yielded much more, not less, lasting cultural fruit.
~ Andy Crouch
Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.
~ Sarah Dessen
In Yosemite, we see how everyone can inherit the earth. But that gift requires a change of heart, a new intention, a deliberate turning. From now on, we must go forward, back into the world of violence and war, to do our part to end the killing, the suffering, and the ongoing destruction of Mother Earth. Yosemite, along with all of creation, calls us to wake up, stand up, and stop the insane destruction of the earth before it's too late.
~ John Dear
One day can bend your life.
~ Mitch Albom
You go through life experiences. Each record captures a different turning point in my life.
~ Keith Urban
The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.
~ Edward St Aubyn
The man in the seat ahead of me started tossing and turning. His pillow fell into my dessert. The pink whipped foam formed meaningful-looking patterns on the white fabric. I saw a bird—that meant travel.
~ Elif Batuman
It's amazing how quickly things can change.
~ Ben Stokes
The essence of obscenity is the turning of the inner mystery into a jest.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
Now is when the point of the story changes.
~ Galway Kinnell
We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.
~ Angelina Grimke
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
~ RuPaul
And then you suddenly cried, and turned away.
~ Rupert Brooke
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist.
~ Margaret Atwood
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist. I
~ Margaret Atwood
Each day I'm thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality, and like that turned into love.
~ Drake