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Quotes About Turning

Everyone has to call 'time' at some stage.
~ Lleyton Hewitt
She had already turned. She watched him in amazement as he made his way slowly across the lawn and into the house. Pandora stepped back for him, and we all watched in respectful silence as he sat down near the piano, his back to the front right leg of it, and his knees brought up and his head resting wearily on his folded arms. He closed his eyes. Sybelle, I asked, would you play it for him? The Appassionata, again, if you would. And of course, she did.
~ Anne Rice
Give men enough time and they will turn on anyone.
~ Anne Rice
There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.
~ Annie Dillard
Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen. And that better thing is us.
~ Scott Westerfeld
One play can change your momentum forever.
~ Sherman Alexie
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
~ Philip Roth
Life turns on a dime.
~ Stephen King
The wheel begins its only if turning. / It had never stopped. / This is life's bargain that motion / Is hope.
~ Mary Jo Bang
back on the other, pivoting the neat craft in her own length. Then both
~ John Flanagan
turn on themselves and branches above
~ John Flanagan
your memory is a warm stone hidden in my hand I'm always turning over...
~ John Geddes
The opportunity to change my mind was legally mandated by the Synarche, of course. I couldn't cannot entirely to the clade until I turned twenty-five standard, and I had to do it, legally, while I wasn't under the influence of any turning or rightminding controlled by the clade.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In turning away from each other, entities withdraw care for each other. Thus the earth is not dying. But the earth may be turning away from certain forms of existence. In this way of thinking the Desert is not that in which life does not exist, A Desert is where a series of entities have withdrawn care for the kinds of entities humans are and this has made humans into another form of existence: bone, mummy, ash, soil.
~ Elizabeth Povinelli
his body close to the ground, he turned and
~ Gene Wolfe
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.
~ George Eliot
A man walks on through life - with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns 'round. The word 'repentance' means 'turning 'round.' He repents and believes and is saved.
~ Peter Marshall
In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
~ William Shakespeare
I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.
~ Buffalo Bill
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .
~ Marcus Aurelius
Like most of the great turning points in history, it was obvious and yet no one saw it coming.
~ Mark Bowden
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
~ Mark Helprin
Time remains the enemy; history must be spatialized. How? By seeing it as a circle, a wheel perpetually turning, the same events recurring again and again.
~ Anthony Burgess