Best Turning Away Quotes

46 Turning Away quotes by 43 unique authors

If you didn't always have to choose between turning away for good or rushing in deeper. In the moments that it really counts, maybe it's… — Sarah Dessen
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
Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And… — Alexandra Bracken
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath… — Ray Bradbury
Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. it was an impossibility. — Stephenie Meyer
What, exactly, is the happiness that can be earned by turning away from reality? — Hiromu Arakawa
I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The… — Theodore Roethke
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth… — John Berger
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. "Then start walking, Rose," I… — Richelle Mead
Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be—but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run… — Hugh Nibley
I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will… — Veronica Roth
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence… — John Piper
Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already… — Jeaniene Frost
Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending… — Stephenie Meyer
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause… — Monica Johnson
This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running… — Joe Henderson
And when you see them, their persons will please you, and If they speak, you will listen to their speech; (they are) as if they… — Quran
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way… — Susan Sontag
Your hand slipping away from mine ... your shadows turning away from me ... you not turning back to see again ... I will not… — Anmol Andore
Of course I want to get married but having a baby with someone is way more important and were both really excited. The idea was… — Lily Allen
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of theroom, and to have a discussion coolly waived when… — George Eliot

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