Turnings Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings. — Carl Jung
Spiritual wisdom consists in finding out the subtleties, policies, and depths of any indwelling sin... to trace this serpent in all its turnings and windings;… — John Owen
The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to her shifts, to… — Robert Hooke
Life's journey is not traveled on a freeway devoid of obstacles, pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a pathway marked by forks and turnings. Decisions… — Thomas S. Monson
The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away. — Jane Austen
My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is… — Steve Miller
Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think.… — Mary Lee Settle
What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes… — C.S. Lewis
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man,… — Lord Chesterfield
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.… — Sylvia Plath
There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk. — Guy Gavriel Kay
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through… — Charles Dickens
I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. — Sylvia Plath
If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way. — Len G. Murray
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine… — James Allen
There is mention of a sword turning every way: parallel whereto is the Word of God in a wounded conscience. Man's heart is full of… — Thomas Fuller

Who Wrote These Turnings Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 18 Turnings Quotes as follows: