Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's… — Haruki Murakami
So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. — Aldous Huxley
What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize,… — Marina Tsvetaeva
Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun. — Khaled Hosseini
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. — Leo Tolstoy
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's… — Margaret Atwood
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled… — Rex Stout
People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the gesture of… — John Berger
my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air… — Anchee Min
Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe,… — Adrienne Rich
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but… — Ayn Rand
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. — Corrie Ten Boom
I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will… — Louisa May Alcott
Oh, God. What was happening to her, she was turning into a normal person. — Kate Atkinson
I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas… — Emily Dickinson
Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it.… — Paul Farmer
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God in his heaven was a Catholic or a Protestant God,… — Anne Rice
But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and… — Anthony Burgess
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack… — David McCullough

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