Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which… — Patrick O'Brian
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep. — E E Cummings
I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek,… — Diana Gabaldon
Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning… — Vladimir Nabokov
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller
...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. — Rebecca Solnit
You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"… — Lloyd Alexander
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the… — Margaret Thatcher
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.… — Neil Gaiman
Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. — Tom Robbins
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.… — Khaled Hosseini
Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something… — Sarah Dessen
So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the… — Steven Millhauser
The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. — Harlan Ellison
It’s possible, I’m moving through the hard veins of heavy mountains, like an arc, alone; I’m so deep inside, I see no end in sight,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country… — H. L. Mencken
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. — Frances Mayes
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give… — Lewis Carroll
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing… — Katherine Anne Porter

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