Quotes About Turning

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease — Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

True repentance involves a hatred for sin and a turning from it and from all self-salvation projects … It's only as I hate my sin that I'll have the desire to fight it.

The tide, you see, is a fickle thing: stealing in, sliding away, always, always turning. She comes when you're not looking, a silent, liquid thief, only to rush away again, retreating from the shore like a coward. She gives sometimes too, though in fleeting, unexpected moments, yielding up her treasures and her dead--but never, ever her secrets.

There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning and crying out in his sleep.

I look at the world, and I notice it's turning While my guitar gently weeps With every mistake, we must surely be learning Still my guitar gently weeps

There's not too many times in life do you get a chance at redemption.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

The boat was coming in. Suddenly the boat stopped and turned around and went out to sea again. "Well, well," thought Benny. "Whoever he is, he

I enjoy turning things on the audience. I really like working in genre because people come into the films with certain expectations. They know the tropes so well that, when you turn on those, it can be shocking because there's a complacency that comes with watching those films.

My brain's always working, and gears are turning 24/7. So I was trying to think of solutions.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

That moment is the one we still repeat here, over and over again, the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away. The American primal scene.

That moment is the one we still repeat here, over and over again, the ordinary, everyday wickedness of turning away.

The heart's metanoia, on the other hand, turns without regret, turns not so much away, as toward, as if the slow pilgrim has been surprised to find that sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.

I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

I should have turned around right then. I should have known something was up, at the very least sensed the consequence lingering in the air, in the hour, in Lude's stare, in all of it, and fuck, I must have been some kind of moron to have been so oblivious to all those signs.

It was to be one of the most fateful days of his life.

The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account

When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar.

Life turns on a dime.

Later, with strange galaxies turning in slow gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full