Turns Quotes · Page 142

I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson

— Rick Riordan

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on,…

— Judith Jamison

I think the challenge is to takedifficult and painful times and turn them into something beneficial, something that makes you grow.

— Michelle Akers

During really difficult times in my life when I start questioning why I am struggling with something, I often turn to books…

— Halle Berry

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

— Anonymous

It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out at last.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.

— Carrie Fisher

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no…

— Cassandra Clare

Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs…

— David Letterman

I have a boundary problem... I need to know when to give and when to back up. I'll help someone across the…

— Nicole Holofcener

I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more…

— Robert Rubin

I'm a hugger of both men and women. As it turns out that those are taken in an offensive manner, I need…

— Bob Filner

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I…

— Bill Vaughan

I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How…

— Charles Jencks

Turn down offers for new cards or credit line increases on your current cards. Credit's tight, and chances are, you're not getting…

— Jean Chatzky

There is no kind of ultimate goal to do something twice as good as anyone else can. It's just to do the…

— Chuck Yeager

Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland,…

— Alan Thein Durning

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your…

— Armistead Maupin

I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if…

— Doug Davidson

Sometimes, life seems to have a higher meaning. Events unfold in uncanny sequences. Long-forgotten acquaintances turn up with news that changes lives.…

— Dean Koontz

There's so many problems in our world, so much negativity. Don't worry about the darkness - turn on the light and the…

— David Lynch

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong…

— Anonymous

Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare…

— Lisa Scottoline

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the…

— Glenn Beck

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools.

— Rick Santorum

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new…

— Rumi

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give…

— Katherine Paterson

Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.

— Thomas Carlyle

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

— Pope Francis

If anybody felt worse than I did, it was Amos. I had just enough magic to turn myself into a falcon and…

— Rick Riordan

Rather throw away that which is dearest to you, your own life, than turn away a good friend.

— Sophocles

Buy, buy, buy, buy! They want to grab you and trap you and turn you into little Elizabeth Hurleys.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of…

— Herbert Marcuse

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

— Jesse Taylor

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

— Elie Wiesel

There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.

— John Updike

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

— Peter McWilliams

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

— William Shakespeare