Turns Quotes
- Page 3I 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.
Pearl Bailey
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
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.
Malin Akerman
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.
Hayden Fry
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You go through these little phases and fads, and it never turns out the way you think it's going to turn out.
Will Sergeant
If every editor turns you down, maybe you should take a second look at your text, however, just in case.
Piers Anthony
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.
James A. Baldwin
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.
Mark Rydell
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.
Frances E. Willard
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.
Gene Roddenberry
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.
Mehmet Oz
I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.
Agnes Macphail
The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
Marie Osmond
I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.
Elton John
Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.
Emily Deschanel
Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.
Bill Murray
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet.
Joanna Russ