Turns Quotes · Page 10

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet…

— Horace

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe…

— Judith Martin

If you look at the people who are advising Rudy Giuliani it turns out that they seem to be all the people…

— Josh Marshall

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of…

— William O. Douglas

With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made the artwork very clear, deceptively so.…

— Dave Gibbons

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when…

— William Kingdon Clifford

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to…

— Emmylou Harris

I became a physician in order to help save lives. I am at once a physician, a citizen, and a woman, and…

— Mildred Fay Jefferson

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you…

— Alicia Keys

I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner,…

— William Allingham

[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a…

— Reginald Fessenden

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed…

— Maya Angelou

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or…

— Michael Crichton

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

— David Pleat

But even in my darkest days I had faith it would turn around.

— Steve Harvey

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

— Jodi Picoult

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

— Bob Goff

I've seen so many lives turn around from the impossible. I have come to embrace the idea that even the simplest act…

— Alicia Keys

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

— Steve Coogan

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are…

— Derek Landy

Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look…

— Rick Riordan

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

— Ani DiFranco

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.…

— Dorothea Brande

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn…

— Mario Vargas Llosa