Turns Quotes · Page 115

Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or…

— Robert Sheckley

Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.

— Joseph Campbell

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

— Chris Ware

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a…

— Mary Beard

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn…

— Edith Hamilton

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

— Terry Pratchett

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing…

— Philip Yancey

I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old…

— Brett Dennen

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a…

— Kenneth Rexroth

If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe,…

— Christoph Waltz

Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations,…

— Baltasar Gracian

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand.…

— William Ellery Channing

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant…

— Bo Lozoff

Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside…

— Anonymous

The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till…

— Ken Kesey

All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your…

— Irina Ratushinskaya

It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does…

— Simone Weil

“Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come…

— Matthew Fox

Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a…

— Pierre Charron

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than…

— Erin McKean

Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood…

— Michael Shermer

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On…

— Claire Wolfe

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn…

— Nile Rodgers

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

Righteous women in their circle of influence, beginning in the home, can turn the world around.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

— Randy Newman

I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.

— Simon Winchester

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.

— E. Jean Carroll

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

— Al Franken

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your…

— Ann Voskamp

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

— Walter de La Mare

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

— Thomas Ligotti

In what is perhaps the strangest turn in the President's efforts to rally support, he agreed that Iraq is just like Vietnam,…

— Jon Stewart

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

— Ray Stevens

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it…

— James E. Burke

Take care of the waste on the farm and turn it into useful channels’ should be the slogan of every farmer.

— George Washington

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its…

— Seth Lloyd

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

— Leymah Gbowee