We Turn Quotes

194 We Turn quotes by 170 unique authors

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,… — Salman Rushdie
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in… — Madeleine L'Engle
Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when… — Robert Kennedy
But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our… — C.S. Lewis
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have… — Orson Scott Card
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. — Scott Westerfeld
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop.… — Erica Jong
We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need. — Marya Hornbacher
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish. — Jules Renard
If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation… — George Clooney
When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him… — Jan Karon
We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and… — Dennis Lehane
Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless… — Michael Jackson
No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan,… — Shel Silverstein
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop… — Neil Gaiman
His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up and condemns us,… — John Piper
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her… — Louisa May Alcott
…We were born vampires." "I thought you became –" "— vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s… — Terry Pratchett
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the… — David McCullough
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it — Karl Popper
There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are.… — Megan Hart
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it. — Paulo Coelho
Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty. — Scott Westerfeld

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