Turning Quotes

1757 Turning quotes by 1375 unique authors

There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is… — Winston Churchill
Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the… — C.S. Lewis
Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust... — Stephen King
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my legs were utterly… — Louise GluÌˆck
Tyson," I said "We're turning around!" Going the wrong way?" he asked. Always," I grumbled, but I steered the chariot towards the stands. — Rick Riordan
At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment. "We can't..." He told… — Richelle Mead
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. — Jacques Derrida
She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all — Nick Hornby
What am I supposed to do, Sit around and wait for you? Well I can't do that, And there's no turning back. I need time… — Unknown Author
to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge… — Alain de Botton
She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only… — Libba Bray
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around. — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous… — Chuck Klosterman
You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was… — Toni Morrison
Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to… — Paullina Simons
Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I… — Francesca Lia Block
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into… — Ann Patchett
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there had been a… — Elizabeth Strout
It had occurred to Sean once - on a bender about ten years before with some buddies, Sean and a bloodstream full of bourbon turning… — Dennis Lehane
Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again… — Cormac McCarthy

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