Turn Quotes

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.

The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn.

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.

I loved the Little Lulu stories, where she would fantasize that her bedroom rug would turn into a pool of water, and she could dive down into the center of the world.

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you are always an actress.