Turns Quotes

7697 Turns quotes by 4468 unique authors

The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it. — Tariq Ramadan
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause — Miguel de Cervantes
Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of… — Clarence Thomas
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake… — Napoleon Hill
Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the… — John C. Maxwell
Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes. — Jim Rohn
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do… — Chuck Mangione
No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose — Mahatma Gandhi
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up… — Philip Larkin
When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by… — Richard Baxter
There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn. — Joseph Alleine
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of… — Zbigniew Herbert
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is… — Emile M. Cioran
How many times can summer turn to fall in one life? — Charles Wright
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. — Denise Levertov
The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds. — Heraclitus
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own — Heraclitus
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo
All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. — Clive James
That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different… — John Zorn
Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you. — Scott Westerfeld
There are moments that you'll remember for the rest of your life and there are moments that you think you'll remember for the rest of… — Maggie Stiefvater
Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you.All is bright if you will think it… — Robert E. Lee
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin… — Willa Cather

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