Turning Quotes

The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot and should not do that.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chinese slave labor camps.

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages.

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.