Quotes About Turns

I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.

I felt I saw an escape from desolation, only it was cold and dark, this escape, and it led by twists and turns into a world of eternal darkness where the raw earth gave the only smell to one's hands, one's skin, one's clothes.

I didn't even cry, I was stunned. You know, and that's just how fast life turns. It turns on a dime.

Don't trust a writer who gives out advice. Writers are suckers for pretty turns of phrase with only the ring of truth.

Life takes many twists and turns. It bruises and burns and rips apart. But it also loves and heals and forgives.

History is full of surprises.

The difference between a movie and a play is that the production you end up with is the production. If a movie that I spent time on turns out to be crap, it's never going to be made again.

An interesting journey never follows a straight path

But, brothers, this biting of their toe-nails over what is the CAUSE of badness is what turns me into a fine laughing malchick. They don't go into what is the cause of GOODNESS, so why of the other shop?

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

He turns slightly... and smiles. Just a small smile, but lovely. Sexy.

Foolishness sleeps soundly, while knowledge turns with each thinking hour, longing for the dawn of answers.

At certain revolutions all the damn'dAre brought: and feel by turns the bitter changeOf fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

So saying, with dispatchful looks in hasteShe turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.

the story of Ruth . . .was written to give us encouragement and hope that all the perplexing turns in our lives are going somewhere good. They do not lead off a cliff. In all the setbacks of our lives as believers, God is plotting for our joy.

All I meant was we all make choices in life. I don't think your mom made bad choices. It's just...if you make a left turn, you can't make a right turn at the same time

I'd found my path. I might not know the exact twists and turns it would take, but that was part of what I'd learned. Options changed. Needs changed. I could wing it a little. The important thing was seeing the overall picture. The forest.

Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between. In the inexplicable, invisible turns—when someone puts a hand down, pushes open one particular gate, and steps through. A man saying no instead of yes, two hands grasped on a dark street.

We were taking turns making picks, and for the first few rounds, everything seemed normal.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

The wheel of ka turns and the world moves on.

I guess it's funny how life turns out?" she tried. "Not last I checked, " Errol said with a snort.

There are such moments in a life. Solitary seconds on which the reality of what life means pivots and turns from a dead end toward a road of untrodden grass that stretches on forever.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.