Turns Quotes

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

It turns out I'm not very good at working with a traditional boss.

It turns out that I'm far too schizophrenic musically for people to categorize me. I think people judge me a lot before they ever really know who I am.

Yeah, it turns out that guys don't like deals on laser hair removal or pole dancing lessons.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

Shopping turns me off.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.