Turns Quotes · Page 53

Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.

— Alan Arkin

Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

— Oprah Winfrey

If you are sitting on top of the world, remember it turns over every 24 hours.

— Nishan Panwar

Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.

— Ella Henderson

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

— Truman Capote

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

— Harvey Cox

Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.

— Edie Sedgwick

The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an "elite" class of celebrities better than the common people has…

— Bill Watterson

But you can't get away from yourself. You can't decide not to see yourself anymore. You can't decide to turn off the…

— Jay Asher

A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on…

— Fumiko Enchi

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

— William Butler Yeats

I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

If it's true love, then it will abide. If it was a fleeting crush, then it will turn to dust. Either way,…

— Sarah Strohmeyer

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

— Matt Groening

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

— Khalil Gibran

Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong…

— Jim Butcher

Everything passes away-suffering,pain, blood, hunger,pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will remain when the shadows of our presence…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure…

— Wassily Kandinsky

I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous…

— Henry David Thoreau

That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping,…

— Jenna Coleman

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in…

— Mary Wesley

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They…

— Eric Hoffer

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even…

— Gao Xingjian

I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what…

— Daniel Handler

It took me thirty-six years; and, in some fifty stories, ranging in length from short-shorts to novels, I think I must have…

— Isaac Asimov

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom…

— Ana Castillo

Speaking for myself, but [Kriota] probably [agrees], I don't do different things because I have to, but certainly my career's taken a…

— Robert Sikoryak

I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more…

— Charlie Munger

We need others for our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Without others we are nothing. Our sense that we are an island,…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who…

— Garrison Keillor

If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.

— Nelson Rodrigues

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.

— Naomi Grossman

Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road, turn around.

— Edgar Cayce

I am obsessed with why people turn out the way they are.

— Andrea Arnold

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

— George Packer

All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.

— Bassui Tokusho

We need people interested, otherwise literally the lights turn off.

— Justin Hartley