Turn Quotes

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

My sense about Greta is that people ought to wait and see and see if she doesn't indeed turn out to be as balanced as we hope and expect she will. But there you are.

It is time for us to turn a corner and come together, put our differences behind us and focus on the future.

The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Since the season ended, I've let things settle down, and I have to talk to the coaching staff and management. I really don't want to turn this into a big drama. So I plan on making a definite decision relatively quickly.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

The good thing is I don't put the ball in my right hand and I'm predominantly left-handed when I'm running the ball. I just have to take care of the football and even if I have two hands that are 100 percent, I still can't turn the ball over. It's just something I have to mentally prepare for, and I think I'm strong enough to do that.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.

I'm drawn to what I'm drawn to. I wear jeans and loafers everyday, mostly casual, but when I really turn it on, I like a classic, simple look.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

It's my firm intention to whop cancer into submission and I truly believe I've given myself the best start possible by radically overhauling my diet and by staying true to my motto, which is: Don't worry, be happy, feel good. The first thing I did when I was diagnosed was to turn vegan.